Old and new print applications are being produced today by many old and new printing equipment and software technologies. Many of these technologies didn’t exist 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. Additionally, the existing codes inexorably linked to specific print applications and equipment and software configurations in many cases. Today, the same printing application can be produced by a wide range of printing technologies.
The Unified Printing Taxonomy for Printing Equipment & Software is a living document designed to capture the full scope of print production today, and prepare a framework that will be updated to support the ever changing requirements of printing technologies and 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