typesetter

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Lorem Ipsum is the nonsense dummy text commonly used by designers and typesetters to lay out a page before the real text arrives for the big show.

From Slate • Jan. 30, 2023

And sometimes, after the editors had finalized a story, Mr. Hedges recalled he and Mr. Seper would stroll back to the paste-up room where the typesetters were laying out the pages by hand.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2022

I’d add pneumatic tubes that blasted our copy to the typesetters, and the guys on the rewrite desk to whom I’d dictate from a phone booth.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2022

So when unionized typesetters went on strike in 1890 after Otis cut their wages by 20% in an economic slide, Otis brought in strikebreakers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2021

They had nothing left that I wanted to borrow, and so I dropped them and fell in with a group of typesetters who ultimately betrayed me as well.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris