SIC 3555—Printing Trades Machinery

Where 3555 sits

1. D Manufacturing
2. 35 Industrial and Commercial Machinery and Computer Equipment
3. 355 Special Industry Machinery, Except Metalworking
4. 3555 Printing Trades Machinery

Description

Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing machinery and equipment used by the printing and bookbinding trades.

What 3555 includes

6-digit codes

• 355500 — Printing Trades Machinery
• 355501 — Printing Presses
• 355502 — Printing Plates
• 355503 — Printing Trade Parts and Attachments
• 355504 — Engraving Machinery and Equipment, Except Plates
• 355505 — Type and Type Making Machinery and Equipment
• 355506 — Bookbinding Machinery
• 355599 — Printing Trades Machinery, NEC

8-digit codes

• 35550000 — Printing trades machinery
• 35550100 — Printing presses
• 35550101 — Presses, envelope, printing
• 35550102 — Presses, gravure
• 35550200 — Printing plates
• 35550201 — Plates, metal: engravers'
• 35550202 — Plates, offset
• 35550300 — Printing trade parts and attachments
• 35550301 — Copy holders, printers'
• 35550302 — Galleys or chases, printers'
• 35550303 — Leads, printers'
• 35550304 — Mats, advertising and newspaper
• 35550305 — Planes, printers'
• 35550306 — Rules, printers'
• 35550307 — Slugs, printers'
• 35550308 — Sticks, printers'
• 35550309 — Type cases, printers'
• 35550400 — Engraving machinery and equipment, except plates
• 35550401 — Blocks, wood: engravers'
• 35550402 — Photoengraving machines
• 35550500 — Type and type making machinery and equipment
• 35550501 — Type casting, founding, or melting machines
• 35550502 — Type, foundry (for printing)
• 35550503 — Type: lead, steel, brass, copper faced, etc.
• 35550600 — Bookbinding machinery
• 35550601 — Collating machines for printing and bookbinding
• 35559900 — Printing trades machinery, nec
• 35559901 — Bronzing or dusting machines for the printing trade
• 35559902 — Electrotyping machines
• 35559903 — Lithographic stones
• 35559904 — Stereotyping machines
• 35559905 — Typesetting machines: linotype, monotype, intertype, etc.
• 35559906 — Typographic numbering machines

Example activities

• advertising and newspaper mats
• blocks, engravers': wood
• bookbinders'machines
• bronzing and dusting machines for the printing trade
• chases and galleys, printers'
• collating machines for printing and bookbinding trade use
• copy holders, printers'
• electrotyping machines
• engraving machinery and equipment (printing trades machinery)
• envelope printing presses
• etching machines (printing trades machinery)
• foundry type for printing
• gelatin rolls used in printing
• gravure presses
• intertype machines
• leads, printers'
• linotype machines
• lithographic stones
• monotype machines
• paper ruling and sewing machines (bookbinders'machinery)
• photoengraving machines
• planes, printers'
• plates, metal: engravers'
• presses, printing

Cross-references for 3555

• Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing textile printing machinery are classified in Industry 3552.

3555 in other systems