Difference between Typesetter and Compositor

What is the difference between Typesetter and Compositor?

Typesetter as a noun is a person who sets type. formerly an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of moveable type and assembled them for printing. while Compositor as a noun is a person who sets type; a typesetter.

We hope you now know whether to use Typesetter or Compositor in your sentence.