Typesetter
noun
A person or machine that sets printed material into a specific format or style.
He worked as a typesetter for the local newspaper.
Often appears as...
- typesetter job
- typesetter machine
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person or machine that sets printed material into a specific format or style.
He worked as a typesetter for the local newspaper.
Often appears as...
- typesetter job
- typesetter machine
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Role
Originally, typesetters manually arranged letters for printing; now, it's mostly digital.
Decades ago, he would have been manually arranging letters as a typesetter.
Pro Tip 2/3Technological Shift
Modern typesetters are likely to use computers, not physical type.
As a typesetter today, she designs the page layout on her computer software.
Pro Tip 3/3Publishing Link
Typesetters are important in publishing; they ensure the text appearance is correct.
The typesetter made sure the book's text was perfectly aligned.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Role
Originally, typesetters manually arranged letters for printing; now, it's mostly digital.
Decades ago, he would have been manually arranging letters as a typesetter.
Pro Tip 2/3Technological Shift
Modern typesetters are likely to use computers, not physical type.
As a typesetter today, she designs the page layout on her computer software.
Pro Tip 3/3Publishing Link
Typesetters are important in publishing; they ensure the text appearance is correct.
The typesetter made sure the book's text was perfectly aligned.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Role
Originally, typesetters manually arranged letters for printing; now, it's mostly digital.
Decades ago, he would have been manually arranging letters as a typesetter.
Pro Tip 2/3Technological Shift
Modern typesetters are likely to use computers, not physical type.
As a typesetter today, she designs the page layout on her computer software.
Pro Tip 3/3Publishing Link
Typesetters are important in publishing; they ensure the text appearance is correct.
The typesetter made sure the book's text was perfectly aligned.
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Video examples
Edward Tenner:...
That was the Paige typesetter. The Paige typesetter had 18,000 parts. The patent had 64 pages of text and 271 figures. It was such a beautiful machine because it did everything that a human being did
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Unintended consequences...
was a big investor in the most complex machine of all times at least until 1918 registered with the US Patent Office that was the page typesetter the page
Video examples
Edward Tenner:...
That was the Paige typesetter. The Paige typesetter had 18,000 parts. The patent had 64 pages of text and 271 figures. It was such a beautiful machine because it did everything that a human being did
Video examples
Unintended consequences...
was a big investor in the most complex machine of all times at least until 1918 registered with the US Patent Office that was the page typesetter the page
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Karen Hesse
American Author
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Jeffrey Toobin
American Lawyer
Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
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Karen Hesse
American Author
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Toobin
American Lawyer
Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.
Example 1 of 2
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