compositors
- plural of compositor.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The compositors refused to set up works for stereotyping, and even those which were set up, however carefully read and corrected, were found to be full of gross errors.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton
