7. Once again, this is misleading – though the sentiment is just, that punchcutters and typefounders have not enjoyed the public reputation accorded to printers. After the very early days of printing it was rare for punchcutters to be employed within print shops; they rapidly became a set of specialists on their own. Type was sometime cast by the printers themselves but even in the sixteenth century was often supplied by specialist typefounders who did, usually, employ punchcutters.