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compositor

[kuhm-poz-i-ter] / kəmˈpɒz ɪ tər /
NOUN
printer
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So that’s where having a very, very good compositor comes in, turning that algorithm-generated face into the person you want it to be.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020

Kalinoski’s work is what’s known as post production and compositor work.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 12, 2015

On leaving Harrow county school, he was apprenticed as a compositor and in 1939 enlisted in the RAF, serving as a fitter/armourer.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2011

On Jan. 1 the news editor and an ad compositor go to the Navy, an apprentice printer to the Army.

From Time Magazine Archive

So I open the book and read slowly:—Gérard Duval, compositor.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

In later years, compositors — we called them printers — would use heavy cardboard flats to create mock-ups of each page, a job strictly restricted to members of the printers’ guild.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022

Punters would cheer on the compositors, who would be docked for errors by proofreaders later.

From Economist ● Mar. 30, 2018

Etaoin shrdlu is an expression well known to newspaper compositors and little-known to readers.

From BBC ● May 3, 2013

I also need the money to hire some skilled compositors to help with the visuals effects on the show.

From Forbes ● Dec. 7, 2012

The compositors performed what they called a 'jerry' in the blunderer's honour, and invested him, after an animated fight, with the medal.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various




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