typesetter

English

Various pieces of moveable type.

typesetter (plural typesetters)

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

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

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