compositor
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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
Some even hire typists to operate the typewriter-keyboard punching machines at half the salary Linotype or Intertype compositors get, use one compositor to supervise as many as five tape-fed typesetting machines.
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
And with compositors setting 700-1,500 ems an hour, and an American newspaper of 1880 averaging about 75,000 ems of copy, typesetting was one of a newspaper’s biggest costs.
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
It was his task to find the printers, buy the paper, and hire the qualified compositors for setting the type.
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
