323113 Commercial Screen Printing

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in screen printing without publishing (except books, fabric grey goods, and manifold business forms). This industry includes establishments engaged in screen printing on purchased stock materials, such as stationery, invitations, labels, and similar items, on a job-order basis. Establishments primarily engaged in printing on apparel and textile products, such as T-shirts, caps, jackets, towels, and napkins, are included in this industry.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Printing on fabric grey goods are classified in Industry 313310, Textile and Fabric Finishing Mills.
• Printing books and pamphlets are classified in U.S. Industry 323117, Books Printing.
• Printing manifold business forms including checkbooks are classified in U.S. Industry 323111, Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books).
• Manufacturing paper stock materials, including invitations, labels, and similar items are classified in Subsector 322, Paper Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing and printing advertising specialties are classified in the Manufacturing sector according to the products made.
• Printing and publishing, known as publishers are classified in Subsector 513, Publishing Industries.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Print shop

Activities listed under 323113

The Census index assigns these 52 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Address lists screen printing without publishing
• Agricultural magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Art prints screen printing without publishing
• Atlases screen printing without publishing
• Business directories screen printing without publishing
• Business forms (except manifold) screen printing without publishing
• Calendars screen printing without publishing
• Cards (e.g., business, greeting, playing, postcards, trading) screen printing without publishing
• Catalogs of collections screen printing without publishing
• Catalogs screen printing without publishing
• Comic books screen printing without publishing
• Commercial screen printing (except books, manifold business forms, grey goods)
• Databases screen printing without publishing
• Directories screen printing without publishing
• Discount coupon books screen printing without publishing
• Financial magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Globe covers and maps screen printing without publishing
• Greeting cards (e.g., birthday, holiday, sympathy) screen printing without publishing
• Guides, street map, screen printing without publishing
• Job printing, screen
• Juvenile magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Maps screen printing without publishing
• Music, sheet, screen printing without publishing
• Newsletters screen printing without publishing
• Newspapers screen printing without publishing
• Patterns and plans (e.g., clothing patterns) screen printing without publishing
• Periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Postcards screen printing without publishing
• Posters screen printing without publishing
• Print shops, screen
• Printing, screen (except books, manifold business forms, grey goods)
• Professional magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Racetrack programs screen printing without publishing
• Racing forms screen printing without publishing
• Radio guides screen printing without publishing
• Radio schedules screen printing without publishing
• Religious magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Scholarly journals screen printing without publishing
• Scholastic magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Screen printing (except books, manifold business forms, grey goods)
• Screen printing apparel and textile products (e.g., caps, napkins, placemats, T-shirts, towels) (except grey goods and T-shirt shops)
• Screen printing textile banners
• Sheet music screen printing without publishing
• Shipping registers screen printing without publishing
• Stationery, screen printing, on a job-order basis
• Technical magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Telephone directories screen printing without publishing
• Television guides screen printing without publishing
• Trade journals screen printing without publishing
• Trade magazines and periodicals screen printing without publishing
• Yearbooks screen printing without publishing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 323113

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 323113, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 500 employees. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 1313, 1811), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 18110Printing of newspapersUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 323111Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books)
• 323117Books Printing