typesetterEtymologyFrom type + setter.nounA person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.“It’s hard to say who has the longest name in history, but a Philadelphia-area typesetter from the early 1900s chose a very long name for himself. Known, among other things, as Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590, Sr., his name has been published in many different forms since.”A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.