18130 Pre-press and pre-media services

Activities ONS lists under 18130

The ONS index assigns these 58 activities to this code. If one describes your company, this is the code to use.

• Aerographing (manufacture)
• Blocking (printing)
• Ceramic transfer litho engraving (manufacture)
• Composition for printing (manufacture)
• Computer to plate CTP processing of plates for relief printing (manufacture)
• Computer to plate CTP processing of plates for relief stamping
• Cylinder engraving for gravure printing (manufacture)
• Cylinder etching for gravure printing (manufacture)
• Data files preparation for multi-media printing on CD-ROM (manufacture)
• Data files preparation for multi-media printing on internet applications (manufacture)
• Data files preparation for multi-media printing on paper (manufacture)
• Digital imposition (manufacture)
• Dummies for presentation (manufacture)
• Electronic makeup (manufacture)
• Electrotyping (manufacture)
• Engraving for printing (manufacture)
• Etching for printing (manufacture)
• Image setting for letterpress processes (manufacture)
• Image setting for offset printing processes (manufacture)
• Insetting (manufacture)
• Layouts for presentation (manufacture)
• Litho plate making (unsensitized) (manufacture)
• Lithographic stones and wood blocks (manufacture)
• Lithography (manufacture)
• Metal etching (manufacture)
• Music plate engraving (manufacture)
• Overhead media foils and other forms of presentation (manufacture)
• Overhead projection foils production (manufacture)
• Photo engraving (manufacture)
• Photo lithography (manufacture)
• Phototypesetting (manufacture)
• Plate making for printing (manufacture)
• Plate processes direct to plate (also photopolymer plates) (manufacture)
• Plate setting for letterpress processes (manufacture)
• Plate setting for offset printing processes (manufacture)
• Poster aerographing (manufacture)
• Poster writing (manufacture)
• Preparation and linkage of digital data (manufacture)
• Pre-press data input electronic make-up (manufacture)
• Pre-press data input optical character recognition, electronic make-up (manufacture)
• Pre-press data input scanning (manufacture)
• Print colouring (manufacture)
• Printers' designing (manufacture)
• Printing plate engraving (manufacture)
• Printing roller engraving (manufacture)
• Process block making (manufacture)
• Process engraving (manufacture)
• Process plate engraving (manufacture)
• Rag book making (manufacture)
• Reproduction and composing (manufacture)
• Reprographic dummies production (manufacture)
• Reprographic lay-outs production (manufacture)
• Reprographic products production (manufacture)
• Reprographic sketch production (manufacture)
• Sketches for presentation (manufacture)
• Stereotyping (manufacture)
• Typesetting and phototypesetting (manufacture)
• Wood blocks for printing (manufacture)

Source: ONS UK SIC 2007 alphabetical index.

Businesses that use this code

• Print shop

What changes in SIC 2026

ONS published UK SIC 2026 in 2026. Its correspondence table maps this code's class (18.13) to:

"1:1" means the class carries over unchanged in scope; other link types mean it was split or merged. Companies House still uses SIC 2007, so keep filing with 18130 until it announces a switch.

Source: ONS correspondence table, SIC 2007 to SIC 2026.

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