typesetter

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Definition of typesetter

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noun

(historical)A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

“It’s hard to say who has the longest name in history, but a Philadelphia-area typesetter from the early 1900s chose a very long name for himself. Known, among other things, as Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590, Sr., his name has been published in many different forms since.”
“My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.”

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noun

(historical)A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

“It’s hard to say who has the longest name in history, but a Philadelphia-area typesetter from the early 1900s chose a very long name for himself. Known, among other things, as Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590, Sr., his name has been published in many different forms since.”
“My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.”
(historical)A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

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From type + setter.

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