Industry Code: 28600
This industry includes employers engaged in the production of commercial and/or job printing, through various mechanical and electronic processes. They provide the clients with printed material in the form of advertising brochures, leaflets, flyers, office forms, etc.
Operation Details:
Commercial printing includes preparatory offset services and may include paste-ups, photographics, reproductions, filming, platemaking, stitching, collation of materials, and binding.
Commercial printing businesses include preprint activities such as preparatory offset services, graphic arts and design, photographics, reproductions, filming, platemaking, collation of materials, and binding.
The two types of printing are web printing which is a continuous roll fed through a press, and the other is sheet printing.
The methods used include:
Letterpress - This is the oldest form of printing and involves impressing paper onto a raised ink surface. It is nearly obsolete, with the exception of cottage print shops. Metal engraving has also been replaced by lithography.
Letterset - This is a method using a blanket for transferring an image from plate to paper. Unlike offset lithography, it uses relief plate and requires no dampening system. It is also known as dry offset.
Offset lithography - This method takes an image from a plate, offsets it onto a rubber blanket of an impression cylinder, and then transfers it onto a sheet of paper. The process is automatic and aluminum plates are rolled through water, then ink. The inked image is transferred onto a rubber pad and onto another roller, going through the same process again with another colored ink. Where there is no image, water sticks to the plate and only the ink is absorbed. When printing pictures or brochures, four basic colors are used: yellow, red, blue and black.
Bookbinding as a separate business is also included in this industry. The activities include collating, folding, stitching, trimming, and gluing.
Underwriting Considerations:
With changing technology, print shops are and will be moving from traditional mechanical printing as outlined above, to the electronic printing (photocopying) era with computer graphic design, phototype setting, and the use of high tech photocopiers to produce printed materials. Shops using a combination of mechanical and electronic printing are to be classified in this industry. Print shops using electronic printing technology exclusively, are to be classified in industry 89301, Electronic Print Services on a compulsory basis.
Businesses that only provide publishing services and do not engage in printing the published material, are exempt from the application of the Workers' Compensation Act under the General Regulations. Upon voluntary application, These businesses would be classified under industry 28800, Publishing without Printing.
Businesses classified under industry 28900, Publishing with Printing, will also print the material published; whereas, businesses in industry 28600, Printing and Bookbinding, will only print the final document which has been brought to their premises and do not provide any publication services.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Bookbinding and Commercial Printing
Commercial Printing and Bookbinding
Printing, Commercial and Bookbinding
Rate Group History:
This rate group was established in 1995, consolidating a number of preprint, print and distribution services.
This industry includes employers engaged in the production of commercial and/or job printing, through various mechanical and electronic processes. They provide the clients with printed material in the form of advertising brochures, leaflets, flyers, office forms, etc.
Premium Rate History:
Activities:
Bookbinding and Commercial Printing
Commercial Printing and Bookbinding
Printing, Commercial and Bookbinding
Operation Details:
Commercial printing includes preparatory offset services and may include paste-ups, photographics, reproductions, filming, platemaking, stitching, collation of materials, and binding.
Commercial printing businesses include preprint activities such as preparatory offset services, graphic arts and design, photographics, reproductions, filming, platemaking, collation of materials, and binding.
The two types of printing are web printing which is a continuous roll fed through a press, and the other is sheet printing.
The methods used include:
Letterpress - This is the oldest form of printing and involves impressing paper onto a raised ink surface. It is nearly obsolete, with the exception of cottage print shops. Metal engraving has also been replaced by lithography.
Letterset - This is a method using a blanket for transferring an image from plate to paper. Unlike offset lithography, it uses relief plate and requires no dampening system. It is also known as dry offset.
Offset lithography - This method takes an image from a plate, offsets it onto a rubber blanket of an impression cylinder, and then transfers it onto a sheet of paper. The process is automatic and aluminum plates are rolled through water, then ink. The inked image is transferred onto a rubber pad and onto another roller, going through the same process again with another colored ink. Where there is no image, water sticks to the plate and only the ink is absorbed. When printing pictures or brochures, four basic colors are used: yellow, red, blue and black.
Bookbinding as a separate business is also included in this industry. The activities include collating, folding, stitching, trimming, and gluing.
Underwriting Considerations:
With changing technology, print shops are and will be moving from traditional mechanical printing as outlined above, to the electronic printing (photocopying) era with computer graphic design, phototype setting, and the use of high tech photocopiers to produce printed materials. Shops using a combination of mechanical and electronic printing are to be classified in this industry. Print shops using electronic printing technology exclusively, are to be classified in industry 89301, Electronic Print Services on a compulsory basis.
Businesses that only provide publishing services and do not engage in printing the published material, are exempt from the application of the Workers' Compensation Act under the General Regulations. Upon voluntary application, These businesses would be classified under industry 28800, Publishing without Printing.
Businesses classified under industry 28900, Publishing with Printing, will also print the material published; whereas, businesses in industry 28600, Printing and Bookbinding, will only print the final document which has been brought to their premises and do not provide any publication services.
Rate Group History:
This rate group was established in 1995, consolidating a number of preprint, print and distribution services.