WZSubclass
WZ 18.12.0—Other printing
Subclass · Klassifikation der Wirtschaftszweige (2025)
Where 18.12.0 sits
What 18.12.0 includes
- Printing of magazines and other periodicals published less than four times a week
- Printing of books and booklets, musical scores and sheet music, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogs, prospectuses and other advertising materials, postage stamps, tax stamps, securities, checks and other security papers, smart cards, albums, diaries, calendars and other printed matter for business purposes, beer mats, personalized stationery and other printed matter using letterpress, offset, gravure, flexographic, screen printing and other printing presses, duplicating machines, computer printers, embossing machines, etc., including highspeed printing directly onto textiles, plastic, glass, metal, wood and ceramics
- Digital printing
- Screen printing on textiles and clothing
- Photocopying of documents
- Decorative printing (e.g. printing of gift wrapping, wallpaper, materials for transfer)
- Large format printing (e.g. printing of flags, banners, rollups, posters)
- The printed matter is usually Copyright protected.
- This subclass covers only the provision of printing services, not goods.
- Printing of labels and tags (e.g., lithography, gravure printing, flexographic printing, sign printing)
- Laser engraving on textiles Photo printing
What 18.12.0 excludes
- Printing on fabrics as an intermediate step in the manufacture of textiles, see 13.30.0
- Manufacture of stationery (e.g., notebooks, folders, binders, registers, (main) ledgers for accounting, business forms), unless the printed information is the main feature, see 17.23.0
- Publishing of printed matter, see group 58.1
- Advertising design, see 73.11.0
- Operation of selfservice photocopiers, see 82.10.0
- Engraving on metal, glass, wood, etc., see the appropriate subclass depending on the material used
18.12.0 in other systems
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