Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

• 1 - Goods-Producing Sector
• 6 - Manufacturing
• 31-33 - Manufacturing
• 323 - Printing and Related Support Activities
• 3231 - Printing and Related Support Activities
• 32312 - Support Activities for Printing

323120 - Support Activities for Printing

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing support services to commercial printers, such as pre-press and bindery work.

• Example Activities:

  • Binderies (i.e., bookbinding shops)
  • Book gilding, bronzing, edging, deckling, embossing and gold stamping, for the trade
  • Book repairing
  • Bookbinding, without printing
  • Colour separation services, for the printing trade
  • Electronic prepress services for the printing trade
  • Electrotype plate preparation services
  • Embossing plate preparation services
  • Engraving printing plates, for the printing trades
  • Flexographic plate preparation services
  • Gravure plates and cylinders preparation services
  • Imagesetting services, pre-press
  • Letterpress plate preparation services
  • Lithographic plate preparation services
  • Offset plate preparation services
  • Pamphlets and magazines, binding without printing
  • Photocomposition services, for the printing trades
  • Photoengraving plate preparation services
  • Platemaking, for the printing trades
  • Postpress services (e.g., beveling, binding, bronzing, edging, foil stamping), on printed products
  • Prepress printing services (e.g., colour separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
  • Printing plate preparation services
  • Printing postpress services (e.g., beveling, binding, bronzing, edging, foil stamping)
  • Printing prepress services (e.g., colour separation, imagesetting, photocomposition, typesetting)
  • Repairing books
  • Rotogravure printing plates and cylinders preparation services
  • Samples and displays mounting
  • Screens for printing, preparation services
  • Trade binding services
  • Typesetting (i.e., computer-controlled, hand, machine), for the printing trade