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26 Typesetter Questions And Answers

1⟩ What is hot metal typesetting?

The time and effort required to manually compose the text led to several efforts in the 19th century to produce mechanical typesetting. While some, such as the Paige compositor, met with limited success, by the end of the 19th century, several methods had been devised whereby an operator working a keyboard or other devices could produce the desired text. Most of the successful systems involved the in-house casting of the type to be used, hence are termed "hot metal" typesetting. The Linotype machine, invented in 1884, used a keyboard to assemble the casting matrices, and cast an entire line of type at a time (hence its name). In the Monotype System, a keyboard was used to punch a paper tape, which was then fed to control a casting machine. The Ludlow Typograph involved hand-set matrices, but otherwise used hot metal. By the early 20th century, the various systems were nearly universal in large newspapers and publishing houses.

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4⟩ What is phototypesetting?

Phototypesetting or "cold type" systems first appeared in the early 1960s and rapidly displaced continuous casting machines. These devices consisted of glass disks (one per font) that spun in front of a light source to selectively expose characters onto light-sensitive paper. Originally they were driven by pre-punched paper tapes. Later they were hooked up to computer front ends.

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5⟩ Basic Typesetter Job Interview Questions

☛ Can you work 40 hours a week?

☛ Have you done this kind of work before?

☛ What did you like and dislike about your previous job?

☛ Where do you see yourself in five years?

☛ Do you work well under pressure?

☛ What is your greatest strength? How does it help you as a Typesetting Machine Operator?

☛ What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?

☛ If hired, how do you intend on making a difference with our company?

☛ How would your former employer describe you?

☛ What do you know about our company?

☛ When did you begin working on typesetting machines?

☛ Why should we hire you?

☛ What have your achievements been to date?

☛ What makes you uncomfortable?

☛ Explain how you would be an asset to this organization.

☛ Describe what you have done to achieve a personal goal.

☛ Why are you the best typesetting machine operator for us?

☛ What attracts you to this industry?

☛ What goals have you set for yourself this year?

☛ Are you efficient with your time?

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7⟩ What is SGML and XML systems?

The standard generalized markup language (SGML) was based upon IBM Generalized Markup Language (GML). GML was a set of macros on top of IBM Script.

The arrival of SGML/XML as the document model made other typesetting engines popular. Such engines include RenderX's XEP, Datalogics Pager, Penta, Miles 33's OASYS, Xyvision's XML Professional Publisher (XPP), FrameMaker, Arbortext, YesLogic's Prince, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign. These products allow users to program their SGML/XML typesetting process with the help of scripting languages. Some of them, such as Arbortext Editor and XMetaL Author, provide attractive WYSIWYG-ish interfaces with support for XML standards and Unicode to attract a wider spectrum of users.

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8⟩ What is SCRIPT variants?

IBM created and inspired a family of typesetting languages with names that were derivatives of the word "SCRIPT". Later versions of SCRIPT included advanced features, such as automatic generation of a table of contents and index, multicolumn page layout, footnotes, boxes, automatic hyphenation and spelling verification.

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11⟩ What is digital era?

The next generation of phototypesetting machines to emerge were those that generated characters on a cathode ray tube. Typical of the type were the Alphanumeric APS2 (1963), IBM 2680 (1967), I.I.I. VideoComp (1973?), Autologic APS5 (1975), and Linotron 202 (1978). These machines were the mainstay of phototypesetting for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Such machines could be "driven online" by a computer front-end system or took their data from magnetic tape. Type fonts were stored digitally on conventional magnetic disk drives.

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16⟩ Phone Based Typesetting interview questions

☛ Do you have the qualities and skills necessary to Typesetting?

☛ If you were interviewing someone for Typesetting position, what traits would you look for?

☛ What is the difference between a manager and a leader?

☛ When were you most satisfied in your job?

☛ Have you handled a difficult situation with a co-worker? How?

☛ What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?

☛ Describe a situation in which you had to collect information.

When answering these typical Typesetting interview questions stay focussed on career goals and aspirations.

This question is asked to find out whether you are committed to the Typesetting job. Having a plan for your future demonstrates motivation and ambition, both of which are important qualities.

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17⟩ Informational Typesetting interview questions

☛ How have you gone about making important decisions?

☛ Give me an example when you felt you were able to motivate a group.

☛ Do you know anyone who works as Typesetting at this company?

☛ How have you changed in the last five years?

☛ What percentage of your time is spent doing each function?

☛ Tell me about a difficult experience you had as Typesetting.

☛ What are your strengths?

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18⟩ Face to Face Typesetting interview questions

☛ How would you describe the experience of working as Typesetting?

☛ What are key tasks for Typesetting?

☛ Give me an example when you felt you were able to motivate a group.

☛ What do you do if you disagree with your boss?

☛ What changes did you develop at your most recent employer?

☛ Are you good at working in a team?

☛ What's your ideal company?

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19⟩ What is typesetting?

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of arranging physical types or the digital equivalents. Stored letters and other symbols (called sorts in mechanical systems and glyphs in digital systems) are retrieved and ordered according to a language's orthography for visual display. Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font (which is widely but erroneously confused with and substituted for typeface). One significant effect of typesetting was that authorship of works could be spotted more easily, making it difficult for copiers who have not gained permission.

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20⟩ What is manual typesetting?

During much of the letterpress era, movable type was composed by hand for each page. Cast metal sorts were composed into words, then lines, then paragraphs, then pages of text and tightly bound together to make up a form, with all letter faces exactly the same “height to paper”, creating an even surface of type. The form was placed in a press, inked, and an impression made on paper.

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