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Traditional Job Titles in a print shop?
Posted by aluminum in
30 Jun 2011 — 11:26am
30 Jun 2011 — 11:26am
I'm working on a type-themed game and need to allow the user to choose a difficulty level. I thought it'd be fun to map the difficulty level to a print-related term.
The first thought was some form of job title...apprentice being 'easy', for instance. Are there job titles that could work (typesetter? pressman?)
Or...perhaps there's other printing terms that would map well to a difficulty level?
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30 Jun 2011 — 1:58pm
I can't rank any of the terms I know, but here are a couple more: [printer's] devil, which might in fact be the lowest level. There's also journeyman, which is pretty high from what I know.
hhp
30 Jun 2011 — 2:26pm
Oh! Journeyman is good!
Here's what I have:
The Apprentice (easy)
The Typesetter (medium)
The Journeyman (hard)
I was thinking of 'The Foreman' for the hard level, but I'm not sure the foreman was actually a printer as much as a manager.
1 Jul 2011 — 12:41pm
Maybe Apprentice/Journeyman/Master would be better? At least I think that's the canonical order.
1 Jul 2011 — 1:15pm
Yes, I agree.
But "devil" could come before "apprentice".
hhp
1 Jul 2011 — 3:09pm
Well, the devil is in the details. (Sorry, I had to beat Chris to the punch.)
1 Jul 2011 — 5:11pm
Don't worry, he'll be right here real soon with a more contorted pun...
hhp
1 Jul 2011 — 4:58pm
Letterpress or Offset?
1 Jul 2011 — 5:17pm
Specifically, wood type. So, old school stuff.
'Master' is nice, but then I'm left with 3 terms that really are more union-centric than anything particularly print-industry related. I thought 'typesetter' was a fun term but maybe that's not enough to carry all three as being type-related.
2 Jul 2011 — 12:28pm
I may be wrong, but I think they are more guild-related than union-do. The journeyman did after all journey from place to place to learn further details of his craft.
'Course, you could make up some vaguely-canonical line, like Typesetter / Linesetter / Pagesetter (char by char / line by line / page by page).