THE OLD SCHOOL PRESS

Printing Jump of the Manta Ray

Tying up the type

With only sixty copies in the edition, each run was quite short. I generally printed seventy copies in case of failures when printing the backs of the sheets and also to allow for the odd sheet that gets creased or inky-fingered subsequently. The quoins are released, the 2pt leads all removed, and the type block is tied up and put back into the galley.

Repeat the process forty-five times and the job is done!


The image is copyright © Philip Hughes 2002.