Industry Description
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing prepress and postpress services in support of printing activities. Prepress services may include such things as platemaking, typesetting, trade binding, and sample mounting. Postpress services include such things as book or paper bronzing, die cutting, edging, embossing, folding, gilding, gluing, and indexing.
Excludes
Engraving on metal--are classified in U.S. Industry 332812, Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers;
Manufacturing photosensitive plates for printing--are classified in U.S. Industry 325992, Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing;
Manufacturing blank plates (except photosensitive plates) for printing--are classified in U.S. Industry 333248, All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing; and
Printing books or printing and binding books--are classified in U.S. Industry 323117, Books Printing.
Keywords
Almanac binding without printing
Bookbinding shops
Bookbinding without printing
Color separation services, for the printing trade
Dictionary binding without printing
Electronic prepress services for the printing trade
Electrotype plate preparation services
Embossing plate preparation services
Encyclopedia binding without printing
Engraving printing plate, for the printing trade
Fiction bookbinding without printing
Flexographic plate preparation services
Gold stamping books for the trade
Gravure plate and cylinder preparation services
Imagesetting services, prepress
Letterpress plate preparation services
Lithographic plate preparation services
Nonfiction bookbinding without printing
Offset plate preparation services
Pamphlet binding without printing
Photocomposition services, for the printing trade
Photoengraving plate preparation services
Phototypesetting services
Postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping, gilding) on printed materials
Prepress printing services (e.g., color separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
Printing plate preparation services
Printing postpress services (e.g., beveling, bronzing, folding, gluing, edging, foil stamping) to printed products (e.g., books, cards, paper)
Printing prepress services (e.g., color separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
Professional bookbinding without printing
Rebinding books, magazines, or pamphlets
Religious bookbinding without printing
Repairing books
Rotogravure printing plates and cylinders preparation services
Samples mounting
School textbooks binding without printing
Screen for printing, preparation services
Swatches and samples, mounting for the trade
Technical manual paper (books) binding without printing
Trade binding services
Typesetting (i.e., computer controlled, hand, machine)
