A male worker in a printing or publishing house who handles, arranges, or delivers copy (text and images) to be set in type or printed.
From copy + man; specific to printing industry terminology, particularly used in British and American newspaper and publishing operations of the 19th-20th centuries.
In busy newspaper offices, the copyman was a crucial but often overlooked figure—he literally moved words and stories from reporters through the production pipeline, and a careless copyman could delay an entire edition.
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