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Support Printing Services

This category includes the business activities related to the support of printing processes, such as binding printed sheets into books, brochures, magazines, catalogs, etc., using folding, assembly, stitching, gluing, uniting, adhesive binding, finishing, and gold stamping methods. It also covers the production of composed type, plates, or cylinders, bookbinding, typesetting, image composition, data input including scanning and optical character recognition, electronic layout, image engraving or sketching cylinders for gravure, direct plate imaging (including photopolymer plates), image creation for printing and relief embossing, mold creation for experiments, artistic work including litho stone and woodblock preparation (lithographic stone production for use in other printing activities), reprographic item production, design for printed materials like sketches, layouts, sample items, and other graphic-related activities such as die-sinking and die-stamping, braille letter duplication, embossing and drilling, raised letter embroidery, varnishing and coating, insertion and folding, and other graphic activities.