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Printing Industry and Use Cluster Profile
Part 1: Printing Industry Profile
Part 2: Printing Process Profile
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: PRINTING INDUSTRY PROFILE
[183 KB pdf file]
I. OVERVIEW
II. COMPANIES AND PLANTS
A. Number of Companies and Plants
B. Geographic Distribution
C. Companies and Plants by Printing Process
D. Size of Companies and Plants
III. VALUE OF SHIPMENTS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, AND
INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
A. Value of Shipments
B. International Trade
C. Outlook for Major Printing Markets
1. Magazine and Periodical Publishing
2. Catalogs and Directories
3. Direct Mail
4. Labels and Wraps
5. Advertising Inserts and Coupons
6. Other Advertising and Free Circulation Papers
7. Annual Reports
8. Business Forms
9. Business Communication
10. Manuals and Technical Documentation
11. Convenience or "Quick" Printing
12. Books
PART TWO: PRINTING PROCESS PROFILE [426 KB pdf file]
I. PRINTING PROCESSES OVERVIEW
II. PREPRESS OPERATIONS
A. Introduction
B. Typesetting and Composition
C. Copy Assembly and Process Photography
D. Image Carrier Preparation
1. Photomechanical Image Carrier Preparation
2. Light-sensitive Coatings
a. Photopolymeric Coatings
b. Diazo Coatings
c. Bichromated Colloid Coatings
III. IMAGE CARRIER PREPARATION AND PRESS OPERATIONS
A. Lithography
1. Lithographic Platemaking
a. Surface Plates
b. Deep-etch Plates
c. Bi-Metal Plates
2. Lithographic Presses and Printing
a. Sheetfed Offset
b. Heatset Web Offset
c. Non-heatset Web Offset
3. Volume of Output and Percentage of Total Market
4. Number and Relative Size of Printing Companies
B. Gravure
1. Gravure Cylinder Making
a. Conventional Gravure
b. Direct-Transfer Gravure
c. Variable-area/Variable-depth Gravure
d. Laser Imaging
e. Electromechanical Engraving
2. Gravure Cylinder Plating
3. Gravure Presses and Printing
a. Publication Gravure
b. Packaging Gravure
c. Product Gravure
4. Volume of Output and Percentage of Total Market
5. Number and Relative Size of Printing Companies
C. Flexography
1. Flexographic Platemaking
2. Flexographic Presses and Printing
3. Volume of Output and Percentage of Total Market
4. Number and Relative Size of Printing Companies
D. Letterpress
1. Letterpress Platemaking
a. Original Plates
b. Duplicate Plates
2. Letterpress Presses and Printing
3. Volume of Output and Percentage of Total Market
4. Number and Relative Size of Printing Companies
E. Screen Printing
1. Screen Preparation
a. Screen Fabrics
b. Stencils
2. Screen Presses and Printing
3. Volume of Output and Percentage of Total Market
4. Number and Relative Size of Printing Companies
F. Plateless Processes
1. Description
2. Specific Plateless Processes
a. Electronic Printing
b. Ink-jet Printing
c. Magnetography
d. Thermal Printing
e. Ion Deposition Printing
f. Direct Charge Deposition Printing
g. Mead Cycolor Photocapsule Process
3. Volume of Output and Percentage of Total Market
4. Number and Relative Size of Printing Companies
IV. POSTPRESS OPERATIONS
A. Introduction
B. Cutting
C. Folding
D. Assembly
E. Binding
1. Binding Methods
2. Covers
F. In-Line Finishing
V. TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS
A. Trends in Prepress Technology
1. Front-End Platforms (Desktop Publishing)
2. Telecommunications
3. Proofing
4. Direct-to-Plate and Direct-to-Press Technologies
B. Trends in Press Technology
1. General Press Trends
a. Inks
b. Dampening Systems
c. Press Cleaners
d. Process Color
2. Offset Printing
a. Waterless Plates
3. Rotogravure Printing
4. Flexographic Printing
5. Plateless Printing
a. Electronic Printing
b. Ink-jet Printing
c. Thermal Printing
d. Ion Deposition Printing
e. Magnetography
C. Postpress Technology
APPENDICES [55 KB pdf
file]
A. SIC Major Group 27 Printing, Publishing, and Allied Industries
B. Top 101 North American Commercial and Publication Printers
C. Top 100 U.S. Screen Printers
D. Top 100 North American Quick Printing Operations
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