Class · NACE Rev. 2.1

18.12 Other printing

active

Includes

printing of magazines and other periodicals, appearing less than four times a week
printing of books and brochures, music and music manuscripts, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogues, prospectuses and other printed advertising, postage stamps, taxation stamps, documents of title, cheques and other security papers, smart cards, albums, diaries, calendars and other commercial printed matter, beer mats, personalised stationery and other printed matter by letterpress, offset, photogravure, flexographic, screen printing, and other printing presses, duplication machines, computer printers, embossers etc., including quick printing directly onto textiles, plastic, glass, metal, wood and ceramics
digital printing
silk-screen printing on textiles and wearing apparel
photocopying of documents
decorative printing, e.g. printing of gift wraps, wallpapers, materials for transfer
large format printing, e.g. printing of flags, banners, roll-ups, posters The material printed is typically copyrighted. This class covers exclusively printing service activities, not goods.

printing on labels or tags (for example, lithographic, gravure printing, flexographic printing, printing signs)
laser engraving on textiles
activities of printing photographs

printing of textile fabrics as an intermediate process within the manufacture of textiles, see 13.30
manufacture of stationery (e.g. notebooks, binders, registers, accounting books, business forms), when the printed information is not the main characteristic, see 17.23
publishing of printed matter, see 58.1
advertising design activities, see 73.11
operation of photocopying machines for photocopying as a self-service, see 82.10
engraving onto metal, glass, wood, etc., see corresponding class according to the material used

Per the official Eurostat correspondence table (NACE Rev. 2 → NACE Rev. 2.1):

NACE Rev. 2 origin	Heading (Rev. 2)	Mapping	Type
18.12	Other printing	NACE Rev. 2 class 18.12 is mapped to NACE Rev. 2.1 classes 13.30, 18.12	5:4
74.20	Photographic activities	NACE Rev. 2 class 74.20 is mapped to NACE Rev. 2.1 classes 18.12, 74.20	5:4
82.19	Photocopying, document preparation and other specialised office support activities	NACE Rev. 2 class 82.19 is mapped to NACE Rev. 2.1 classes 18.12, 82.10	5:4

Content moved from 18.12 includes:

printing of magazines and other periodicals, appearing less than four times a week
printing of books and brochures, music and music manuscripts, maps, atlases, posters, advertising catalogues, prospectuses and other printed advertising, postage stamps, taxation stamps, documents of title, cheques and other security papers, smart cards, albums, diaries, calendars and other commercial printed matter, beer mats, personalised stationery and other printed matter by letterpress, offset, photogravure, flexographic, screen printing, and other printing presses, duplication machines, computer printers, embossers etc., including quick printing directly onto textiles, plastic, glass, metal, wood and ceramics
digital printing
decorative printing, e.g. printing of gift wraps, wallpapers, materials for transfer
large format printing, e.g. printing of flags, banners, roll-ups, posters
printing on labels or tags, e.g. lithographic, gravure printing, flexographic printing, printing signs
laser engraving on textiles

Content moved from 74.20 includes:

activities of printing photographs (from mobile telephones, memory cards, USB and other electronic supports)

Content moved from 82.19 includes:

Code	18.12
Level	Class
Parent	18.1
Classification	NACE Rev. 2.1
Legal basis	Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/137
Source	Eurostat (ShowVoc dissemination platform)
Data checked	2026-07-20