SIC 2796—Platemaking Services

Where 2796 sits

1. D Manufacturing
2. 27 Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries
3. 279 Service Industries For The Printing Trade
4. 2796 Platemaking Services

Description

Establishments primarily engaged in making plates for printing purposes and in related services. Also included are establishments primarily engaged in making positives or negatives from which offset lithographic plates are made. These establishments do not print from the plates which they make, but prepare them for use by others.

What 2796 includes

6-digit codes

• 279600 — Platemaking Services
• 279601 — Gravure Platemaking Services
• 279602 — Engraving Platemaking Services
• 279699 — Platemaking Services, NEC

8-digit codes

• 27960000 — Platemaking services
• 27960100 — Gravure platemaking services
• 27960101 — Gravure printing plates or cylinders, preparation of
• 27960102 — Plates and cylinders for rotogravure printing
• 27960200 — Engraving platemaking services
• 27960201 — Engraving on copper, steel, wood, or rubber: printing plates
• 27960202 — Photoengraving plates, linecuts or halftones
• 27960203 — Steel line engraving, for the printing trade
• 27969900 — Platemaking services, nec
• 27969901 — Color separations, for printing
• 27969902 — Electrotype plates
• 27969903 — Embossing plates, for printing
• 27969904 — Etching on copper, steel, wood, or rubber: printing plates
• 27969905 — Letterpress plates, preparation of
• 27969906 — Lithographic plates, positives or negatives
• 27969907 — Stereotype plates

Example activities

• color separations for printing
• electrotype plates
• electrotyping for the trade
• embossing plates for printing
• engraving on copper, steel, wood, or rubber plates for printing
• engraving on textile printing plates and cylinders
• engraving, steel line: for printing purposes
• etching on copper, steel, wood, or rubber plates for printing purposes
• flexographic plates, preparation of
• gravure plates and cylinders, preparation of
• letterpress plates, preparation of
• linecuts
• lithographic plates, positives or negatives: preparation of
• offset plates, positives or negatives: preparation of
• photoengraving for the trade
• plates and cylinders, rotogravure printing: preparation of
• plates, printing: preparation of
• stereotype plates
• stereotyping for the trade

Cross-references for 2796

• Engraving for purposes other than printing is classified in Industry 3479.

2796 in other systems