What's the difference between compositor and typesetter?

Compositor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who composes or sets in order.
  • (n.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'We do have a tendency to come to the same place from totally different directions, have a massive scrap, and then something comes out of it,' says Davenport cheerfully, as we head off for a tour of the edit suites, where a large team of editors and compositors is layering blue-screen images onto footage recorded in nearby Warwickshire woodland.
  • (2) Our findings indicate that printing pressroom workers reported skin condition symptoms at a significantly higher rate than did the compositor referent group.
  • (3) Skull identification by electronic photo-composition can, with the help of a video-animation compositor, be further developed beyond the pure superprojection technique into an animated picture difference image.
  • (4) Consistent with this hypothesis, 16% of pressmen and no compositors were found to have primarily low-grade albuminuria detectable by dipstick.
  • (5) A bunch of bananas to former Fleet Street compositor, Mick Clayton, who helped the prince with the press, but made him laugh by asking: “Can I check your union card first?” Ba-doom tish!
  • (6) We surveyed 215 pressroom workers and 34 compositors at a large northeastern US newspaper printing facility.

Typesetter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact, Dreyer's adoptive parents, Carl and Marie Dreyer - a freethinking leftist typesetter and a wife who already had an illegitimate daughter by another man - never set foot inside a church unless they had to, and their adopted son was a non-believer who attended occasional services at a French reform church, but only in order to teach himself the language.
  • (2) Social work with adults will never join the typesetter in the occupational dustbin of history, but the quality of service and sometimes, the very lives of vulnerable adults, are at stake.
  • (3) Every class of society was represented, from the Scottish nobility to the typesetters who worked alongside Snare in Reading and remembered his life-or-death passion for the portrait.
  • (4) Take the case of Andy Forbes, a former typesetter and computer programmer.
  • (5) The study population was 1261 typesetters, employed in 1961 and followed until the end of 1984; this was a cohort of convenience, assembled as a comparison for a different study.
  • (6) "It's too early to say whether action will be taken against the typesetters, but we will still use them.
  • (7) HarperCollins, which runs the 4th Estate imprint, said the crucial mistake happened when a small Scottish typesetter, Palimpsest, sent "the last but one version" of the book file to the printers.
  • (8) The 4 groups were as follows; workers routinely engaged in both VDT work and key-punch work at a printing company (A-1 group), researchers or office workers handling VDT irregularly at a chemical company (B-1 group), typesetters at a printing company (A-2 group), and office workers at a chemical company (B-2 group).
  • (9) So it is particularly unfortunate that, thanks to an apparent mistake by his typesetters, the version published in Britain has been found to be littered with errors.
  • (10) After all, a typesetter could have been called a page grinder, a print poser or even a big yellow cheese, it wouldn't have made a difference to the work they actually did.

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