Print applications have evolved over the years and are not solely what they were when the NAICS codes defining print applications were created in the 1990’s. In fact, since the 1993, printing has gone through a significant transformation driven by digital printing technologies, which has completely escaped the existing printing application code structure.
The Unified Printing Taxonomy for Printing Applications is a living document designed to capture the full scope of print today, and prepare a framework that will be updated to support the ever changing requirements of printing applications. It supports not just new printing applications, but also the changing nature of how they are produced with new and evolving equipment and software (see Equipment & Software Taxonomy)