How to Use typesetting in a Sentence

typesetting

noun
  • 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
  • Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
    — Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Twain made many poor investments in his time, at one time losing him hundreds of thousands of dollars (on an automatic typesetting piece).
    — Logan Sykes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2015
  • 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
  • After the day’s work was done, Deford fell into the habit of going along with the newspaper’s typesetting and printing men to a workingman’s bar down by the docks.
    — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 30 May 2017
  • Lorem Ipsum’s been the norm in printing and typesetting since the 1500s, when an anonymous printer used it to show different type fonts.
    — Rob Weinberg, Pomerado News, 14 June 2018
  • There were no computers, no CNN, no electronic typesetting, no e-mail and no satellite transmissions.
    — Jim Minter, ajc, 6 June 2018
  • His enthusiasm for new technology led to investments in a money-losing typesetting machine.
    — Richard Gunderman, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Typographical fashions change, and since the digital age overtook typesetting and graphic design, many of the fonts common in the time of Lovecraft have fallen into disuse.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2008
  • Eventually syndicates began providing thin metal stereotype plates, or the lightweight casts used to make them, called matrices, which let publishers skip the typesetting process altogether.
    — Julia Guarneri, Smithsonian, 31 Oct. 2019
  • His father, who is retired, was the owner of National Electronic Type, a typesetting company, also in Topeka.
    — Jessica Morris, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • Levin’s father, who had programmed computers for the Soviet weather service, landed a job at Compugraphic, a typesetting company.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • By the 1990s, developments in printing technology, including digital typesetting and affordable color printing, enabled publications to produce content rapidly and economically.
    — Suzanne Dundas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026

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