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Polygraphe

English translation: desktop publishing specialist/technician

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French term or phrase:Polygraphe
English translation:desktop publishing specialist/technician
Entered by: Sean Linney (X)

20:48 Feb 16, 2015
French to English translations [PRO]
Printing & Publishing
French term or phrase: Polygraphe
This term appears in a list of jobs/roles associated with a Swiss media company. According to Wikipedia, "Polygraphe est un métier suisse regroupant les anciennes professions de typographe et de photolithographe pour lesquelles il n’existe plus de formations dans ce pays." The meaning is clear from this definition but can anyone suggest how to express this in English? I may be wrong, but I don't think it's 'polygrapher' or any other cognate of 'polygraph'.

The word appears in a short document introducing a company to potential clients. The language variant is Swiss French and the target country is the UK.
Sean Linney (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:14
desktop publishing specialist/technician
Explanation:
These days, those jobs are all done on computers so I'd suggest "desktop publishing specialist" or "desktop publishing technician".
Selected response from:

Gregory Lassale
United States
Local time: 00:14
Grading comment
Merci beaucoup, Gregory!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5Pre-press specialist
Angelina Galanska
3layout artist
robon
3 -1desktop publishing specialist/technician
Gregory Lassale


Discussion entries: 3





  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
desktop publishing specialist/technician


Explanation:
These days, those jobs are all done on computers so I'd suggest "desktop publishing specialist" or "desktop publishing technician".

Gregory Lassale
United States
Local time: 00:14
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Merci beaucoup, Gregory!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Angelina Galanska: this is clearly an old job or trade ... "for which there is no more training is available".
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
layout artist


Explanation:
Une autre suggestion s'appuyant sur les sources suivantes:

http://education-portal.com/articles/Layout_Artist_Job_Descr...

robon
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Pre-press specialist


Explanation:
Also could be "Typesetter"


Angelina Galanska
United States
Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian
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