Typesetter Series

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Employees in these classifications operate or supervise the operation of various typesetting systems based upon photographic, laser, digital, or strike-on principles. Such equipment has the capability to photographically produce countless sizes and styles of type that may be intermixed to generate final copy suitable for producing quality printed material. Work­ing with the customer, the typesetter chooses among the various formats and type sizes and styles taking into consideration desired document length, purpose, appearance, cost, and other relevant factors. Typesetters must be familiar with proofreading symbols called copy markings to proofread documents and to correct typographical spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. At the highest level they also edit for content, format, and sentence and para­graph structure. Drafts of typeset material called "proof copies” are frequently provided to users for review prior to printing.

Typesetters may operate peripheral equipment (such as rapid access processors, dryers, and other related equipment) in the course of producing typeset copy. They layout and paste up typeset copy with illustrations, photographs, decora­tive enhancements, and other graphic materials on light tables to compose the “camera ready copy" from which documents are printed.

Since specific job functions performed by typesetters relate to printing or graphics, these positions are typically located in a central campus printing operation and/or publications unit.

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