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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

Fraught with still greater danger is, however, the frequent practice of compositors of bringing their type-stained hands in contact with their lips or keeping eatables in composing rooms, etc.

From Economist • May 23, 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

There a toll of five shillings for drink was demanded of him by the other compositors as the price of his admission to their society.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell