typesetter

English

Various pieces of moveable type.

Etymology

type +‎ setter

Noun

typesetter (plural typesetters)

1. (historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
   • 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:

     My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.

2. (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Synonyms

• (person who sets type): compositor

Translations

person

• Azerbaijani: düzücü, mürəttib, naborçu
• Bulgarian: словослагател m (slovoslagatel)
• Czech: sazeč (cs) m
• Dutch: zetter (nl) m, letterzetter (nl) m
• Finnish: latoja (fi)
• French: typographe (fr) m or f, typote (fr) f, typo (fr) m, compositeur-typographe (fr) m
• German: Schriftsetzer (de) m, Schriftsetzerin (de) f, Metteur (de) m
• Greek: στοιχειοθέτης (el) m (stoicheiothétis), τυπογράφος (el) m or f (typográfos)
• Hungarian: betűszedő (hu), szedő (hu)
• Irish: clóchuradóir m, cló-eagraí m
• Malay: pengatur huruf
• Maori: kaiwhakanoho reta
• Polish: zecer (pl) m, zecerka (pl) f, składacz (pl) m, składaczka f
• Portuguese: compositor (pt) m, tipógrafo (pt) m
• Romanian: culegător (ro) m, zețar (ro) m, tipograf (ro) m
• Russian: набо́рщик (ru) m (nabórščik), печа́тник (ru) m (pečátnik), типо́граф (ru) m (tipógraf)
• Scottish Gaelic: clòdhadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: словослагач m

  Roman: slovoslagač m

• Spanish: cajista m or f
• Swedish: handsättare (sv), sättare c, typograf (sv) c

machine

• Bulgarian: линотип m (linotip)
• Finnish: latomakone