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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

Touching was the behavior of Owen J. Kindelon, a compositor who, as member of the typographical union in 1884, had voted in favor of a measure to help Old Joseph Pulitzer raise $50,000.

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

The original artwork that Ms. Severin labored over, often under intense deadlines, was then sent to compositors and eventually printed on cheap, coarse paper to be sold to children for 10 cents.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018

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

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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