noun
- Plural of electrotyper; people who practice electrotyping, a process of creating metal printing plates or copies using electrodeposition.
Usage: technical; printing industry; largely historical; the process is now less common due to modern printing technologies
Examples
- The electrotypers in the print shop carefully monitored the electrodeposition process to ensure quality plates.
- Skilled electrotypers were essential to the newspaper industry in the early 20th century.
- The factory employed dozens of electrotypers who produced metal duplicates of original printing blocks.
- Modern printing has largely replaced the work that electrotypers once performed by hand.