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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

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

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

I hadna long opened the house until the compositors and the pressmen, the bookbinders, gold-beaters, and others, a' came back to it.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various


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