NOC 2021 · 14112 · TEER 4
Desktop publishing operators and related occupations
Unit group 14112 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Desktop publishing operators and workers in related occupations use computers to enter copy into a typesetting system or operate typesetting output equipment to produce text that is ready to print. They are employed by firms that specialize in typesetting, commercial printing companies, publishing and printing companies and various establishments in the public and private sectors that have in-house printing departments.
Example job titles
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- ad compositor - typesetting
- braille keyboard operator - typesetting
- braille stereograph machine operator
- cold-composition typographer
- cold-typesetting typographer
- composing machine operator - typesetting
- compositor - typesetting
- compositor-typographer
- computer photocompositor
- computer phototypesetter
- computer typesetter
- copy cutter
- copy marker - typesetting
- copy stylist - typesetting
- copy typist - typesetting
- desktop compositor
- desktop publishing (DTP) operator
- desktop publishing (DTP) specialist
- electronic formatter
- electronic letterer operator
- electronic photocomposer operator
- electronic phototypesetting machine operator
- electronic sign maker operator - typesetting
- formatter operator - typesetting
- imposition planner
- impositor
- input compositor - typesetting
- input operator - typesetting
- Intertype machine operator
- job compositor - typesetting
- keyboard operator - typesetting
- Linotype composing machine operator
- Ludlow machine operator
- machine compositor - typesetting
- machine typecaster
- manual compositor
- markup person - typesetting
- Monotype casting machine operator
- Monotype hot metal typesetter keyboard operator
- Monotype keyboard operator
- newspaper page assembler
- output compositor - typesetting
- output operator - typesetting
- page assembler
- page compositor
- photocomposing machine keyboard operator
- photocomposing machine operator
- photocomposing machine tender
- photocomposing-perforating machine operator
- photocomposition typesetter
- photocompositor
- photomechanical composition typographer
- phototypesetter
- phototypesetter operator
- phototypesetter terminal operator
- phototypesetting machine operator
- preproduction operator
- processing and output compositor
- scanning machine operator - desktop publishing
- terminal operator
- type compositor
- typecasting machine operator
- typesetter - typesetting
- typesetting machine operator
- typesetting machine tender
- typographer
- typographer apprentice
- VariTyper operator
- videotext operator
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.