Industry: 2796—Platemaking and Related Services
Establishments primarily engaged in making plates for printing purposes and in related services. Also included are establishments primarily engaged in making positives or negatives from which offset lithographic plates are made. These establishments do not print from the plates which they make, but prepare them for use by others. Engraving for purposes other than printing is classified in Industry 3479.
| Color separations for printing | Letterpress plates, preparation of |
| Electrotype plates | Linecuts |
| Electrotyping for the trade | Lithographic plates, positives or negatives: preparation of |
| Embossing plates for printing | Offset plates, positives or negatives: preparation of |
| Engraving on copper, steel, wood, or rubber plates for printing | Photoengraving for the trade |
| Engraving on textile printing plates and cylinders | Plates and cylinders, rotogravure printing: preparation of |
| Engraving, steel line: for printing purposes | Plates, printing: preparation of |
| Etching on copper, steel, wood, or rubber plates for printing purposes | Stereotype plates |
| Flexographic plates, preparation of | Stereotyping for the trade |
| Gravure plates and cylinders, preparation of | |
| Codes |
Titles | Total Marketable US Businesses |
| 27960000 | Platemaking services | 127 |
| 27960100 | Gravure platemaking services | 1 |
| 27960101 | Gravure printing plates or cylinders, preparation of | 5 |
| 27960102 | Plates and cylinders for rotogravure printing | 2 |
| 27960200 | Engraving platemaking services | 31 |
| 27960201 | Engraving on copper, steel, wood, or rubber: printing plates | 49 |
| 27960202 | Photoengraving plates, linecuts or halftones | 30 |
| 27960203 | Steel line engraving, for the printing trade | 11 |
| 27969901 | Color separations, for printing | 51 |
| 27969902 | Electrotype plates | 5 |
| 27969903 | Embossing plates, for printing | 4 |
| 27969904 | Etching on copper, steel, wood, or rubber: printing plates | 7 |
| 27969905 | Letterpress plates, preparation of | 5 |
| 27969906 | Lithographic plates, positives or negatives | 23 |
| 27969907 | Stereotype plates | 0 |
