NAICS 323120

What is the NAICS code 323120?

The NAICS code 323120 is applied to those industries related to Support Activities for Printing.

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.

Therefore, all companies engaged in any industrial activity related to this type of business are grouped under category 323120 in the North American Industry Classification System.

This industrial activity of NAICS code is structured as follows:

• 32 - Manufacturing
• 323 - Printing and Related Support Activities
• 3231 - Printing and Related Support Activities
• 32312 - Support Activities for Printing
• 323120 - Support Activities for Printing

Characteristics of the North American Industry Classification System code 323120

NAFTA

This code is only used in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). It´s to say, it is not used in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): United States, Canada, and Mexico.

Related codes

The NAICS industry 323120 has the following cross-references:

• Engraving on metal are classified in U.S. Industry 332812, Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers.
• Manufacturing blank plates (except photosensitive plates) for printing are classified in U.S. Industry 333248, All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing photosensitive plates for printing are classified in U.S. Industry 325992, Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing.
• Printing books or printing and binding books are classified in U.S. Industry 323117, Books Printing.

Related activities

Below are some of the most common types of activities in the Support activities for Printing industry (NAICS Code 323120):

• 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)