A person who operates or manages the electrotyping process, creating metal copies of printing plates using electrical methods.
From electro- (electricity) + typer (one who types or creates type). Coined in the 19th century when electrotyping became a major printing technology. The -er suffix indicates the person performing the action.
Before photocopy machines existed, electrotypeers were the high-tech workers of the printing world—they could make perfect metal duplicates of printing plates using electricity, allowing newspapers to print the same page in multiple locations simultaneously.
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