NAICS code 323120: 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.
- SBA small-business size limit
- 550 staff
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The SBA limit is 550 employees average number of employees.
What 323120 covers
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- Engraving on metal: Industry 332812, Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers
- Manufacturing photosensitive plates for printing: Industry 325992, Photographic Film, Paper, Plate, Chemical, and Copy Toner Manufacturing
- Manufacturing blank plates (except photosensitive plates) for printing: Industry 333248, All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
- Printing books or printing and binding books: Industry 323117, Books Printing
Activities listed under 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
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- 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)
Questions
What is NAICS code 323120?
NAICS 323120 is “Support Activities for Printing”. This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in performing prepress and postpress services in support of printing activities.
What businesses use NAICS code 323120?
Examples from the U.S. Census Bureau: Almanac binding without printing; Bookbinding shops; Bookbinding without printing; Color separation services, for the printing trade; Dictionary binding without printing; and Electronic prepress services for the printing trade.
What is not included in NAICS 323120?
Businesses mainly 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; and manufacturing blank plates (except photosensitive plates) for printing are classified in U.S. Industry 333248, All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing.
What is the SBA size standard for NAICS 323120?
550 employees (average over the last 24 months), including affiliates. Source: 13 CFR 121.201, effective March 17, 2023.
What is the SIC code for NAICS 323120?
SIC codes 2789 (Bookbinding and Related Work), 2791 (Typesetting) and 2796 (Platemaking and Related Services), from the U.S. Census Bureau concordances (1987 SIC → 2002 NAICS, carried to 2022 NAICS).
What is the IRS business code for NAICS 323120?
323100 (Printing & related support activities) on Schedule C, line B, from the IRS list of principal business codes. The IRS code covers NAICS 323111–323120.
How do I find government contracts for NAICS 323120?
Federal agencies put a NAICS code on each solicitation in SAM.gov, and some states and cities use NAICS codes too. Add 323120 to your SAM.gov registration and to your bid alerts; PublicBeam emails new bids for the codes you choose every morning.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS (public domain). PublicBeam is independent and not affiliated with the Census Bureau or any agency. Always check the NAICS code in the official notice before you bid.