noun
definition
A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
definition
A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.
Examples of typesetters in a Sentence
Instructions to typesetters and binders were given in Greek.
There were typesetters there who could hurl anathemas at bad copy which would have frightened a Bengal tiger.
I knew typesetters who said computers would never duplicate their quality; travel agents who said the Internet would never replace them, and whose stockbrokers reassured them this was true.
Authors should correct typesetters errors in red; minimal alterations of their own should be in black.
Most consumers and even some professional typesetters have a hard time telling the two fonts apart with a simple glance and general reading.
The "markup" part comes from the art of typography, where magazine and book editors would "mark up" copy so that the typesetters would know what parts to make BOLD or italic or the like.