>>>>>I suggest "typesetter"<<<<<
Am I fixing to squash a perfectly good joke here? Did you ever actually set type? Not fun. Borrr-ring! I trust you never hand-set type, I didn't much, myself, although I did engrave cuts. Chained to the whatchamacallit Merganthaler, hot metal type, I didn't, my mother did, hours and hours at a time, boorrrr-ring!
I did set type on some kinda gadget that was like a typewriter, sorta, a mean little gadget that never lined up exactly and all corrections had to be pasted on line by line, remember that yucky hot wax? Borrr-ring!
Then they came out with the photolitho stuff, all you had to do was remember a zillion codes, and keep the chemicals flushed out, otherwise your type would turn to beige when the light hit it. Not as hard if you didn't mind the chemicals, but still, repeat after me boorrrr-ring!
Jeez, if it was fun, I'd still be doing it. I am a lawyer now, does that give you any idea of how much fun being a typesetter is?
|
