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
Many a compositor and newsman keeps a scrapbook of the most devastating misprints that come to his eye, most of them unreprintable.
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
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
At least these compositors are honest about that.
From Washington Post
I bet you one million pounds," said Mr. Mablethorpe with great precision, "that the condemned printing-firm employed by my unmentionable publishers has taken into its adjectival employment an asterisked staff of obelised female compositors.
From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
