SNI 18.12—Other printing

Where 18.12 sits

1. C Manufacturing
2. 18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media
3. 18.1 Printing and service activities related to printing
4. 18.12 Other printing

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 18.121 Printing of periodicals
• 18.122 Book printing and other printing

What 18.12 includes

• Printing of magazines and other periodicals, appearing less than four times a week
• Printing of books and brochures, music and music manuscripts, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogues, prospectuses and other printed advertising, postage stamps, taxation stamps, documents of title, cheques and other security papers, smart cards, albums, diaries, calendars and other commercial printed matter, beer mats, personalised stationery and other printed matter by letterpress, offset, photogravure, flexographic, screen printing, and other printing presses, duplication machines, computer printers, embossers etc., including quick printing directly onto textiles, plastic, glass, metal, wood and ceramics
• Digital printing
• Silk-screen printing on textiles and wearing apparel
• Photocopying of documents
• Decorative printing, e.g. printing of gift wraps, wallpapers, materials for transfer
• Large format printing, e.g. printing of flags, banners, roll-ups, posters The material printed is typically copyrighted. This class covers exclusively printing service activities, not goods.
• Printing on labels or tags (for example, lithographic, gravure printing, flexographic printing, printing signs)
• Laser engraving on textiles
• Activities of printing photographs

What 18.12 excludes

• Printing of textile fabrics as an intermediate process within the manufacture of textiles, see 13.30
• Manufacture of stationery (e.g. notebooks, binders, registers, accounting books, business forms), when the printed information is not the main characteristic, see 17.23
• Publishing of printed matter, see 58.1
• Advertising design activities, see 73.11
• Operation of photocopying machines for photocopying as a self-service, see 82.10
• Engraving onto metal, glass, wood, etc., see corresponding class according to the material used

18.12 in other systems