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type foundernoun PrintingA designer and maker of metal type.Wolfgang Endter, Der Buchdrucker, Setzer and Schriftgiesser (printer, compositor, and type founder), was entombed in 1651....- Being a printer or a punchcutter or a type founder in those days was not necessarily a safe job.
- One of the best type founders was William A. Parkes, of 56 Sutherland Place, Wolverhampton.
Derivativestype foundry noun ...- The Font Bureau, a Boston-based type foundry, provided typeface information for 12 of those 15 newspapers.
- As the managing director of a type foundry, he was one of the country's leading experts on typography and published a standard work on the subject, reprinted as recently as 1952.
- In 1739 he returned to St Andrews and, in 1742, he set up a type foundry.
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