typesetting
noun
type·set·ting
ˈtīp-ˌse-tiŋ 
: the process of setting material in type or into a form to be used in printing
also
: the process of producing graphic matter (as through a computer system)
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In the days of typesetting, the tiny agate type was always rife with errors, players with similar names might be confused.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
PostScript has taken the mystique out of typesetting while creating a whole new skill set for designers and graphics artists.
—Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 25 Aug. 2023
Users relied on either a screechy dot-matrix printer, with its pixelated text, or a specialized typesetting machine, which could cost $10,000 and take up most of a room.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
The article passed review and editing at the Times, the typesetting ready to roll.
—Aryeh Neier, The New York Review of Books, 22 June 2023
The traditional letterpress printing shop specializes in a wide variety of printing services, including numbering, die cutting, imprinting, typesetting, scoring, perforating and general printing.
—John Benson, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
Like card suits, logic and math notation, and certain map and public safety symbols, the people who designed computer fonts knew users were likely to need these special characters to put into newspaper chess columns, for example, or for the actual printing of maps without separate typesetting.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
As a magazine publisher familiar with the travails of manual typesetting and longhand bookkeeping, the Brand of the early 1980s found word processors and spreadsheets the most immediately mind-blowing feature of PCs.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
Typical gigs on sites like Fiverr, UpWork, Flexjobs, etc. include WordPress coding, website design, graphic design, mobile app development and typesetting.
—Terry Rybolt, Forbes, 23 May 2022
Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 1 June 2024
PostScript has taken the mystique out of typesetting while creating a whole new skill set for designers and graphics artists.
—Michael J. Miller, PCMAG, 25 Aug. 2023
Users relied on either a screechy dot-matrix printer, with its pixelated text, or a specialized typesetting machine, which could cost $10,000 and take up most of a room.
—Clay Risen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
The article passed review and editing at the Times, the typesetting ready to roll.
—Aryeh Neier, The New York Review of Books, 22 June 2023
The traditional letterpress printing shop specializes in a wide variety of printing services, including numbering, die cutting, imprinting, typesetting, scoring, perforating and general printing.
—John Benson, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
Like card suits, logic and math notation, and certain map and public safety symbols, the people who designed computer fonts knew users were likely to need these special characters to put into newspaper chess columns, for example, or for the actual printing of maps without separate typesetting.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2020
As a magazine publisher familiar with the travails of manual typesetting and longhand bookkeeping, the Brand of the early 1980s found word processors and spreadsheets the most immediately mind-blowing feature of PCs.
—Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 14 June 2022
Typical gigs on sites like Fiverr, UpWork, Flexjobs, etc. include WordPress coding, website design, graphic design, mobile app development and typesetting.
—Terry Rybolt, Forbes, 23 May 2022
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“Typesetting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/typesetting. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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