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§15. A Digest of the Workflow

In this section I attempt a narrative of the entire production cycle of ToP. It
follows the order of printing the quires in each phase as far as I have been able
to determine. "Distributed" means the entire page was broken down and the type
put back in the cases. "Stripped" means that the skeleton (always the headlines,
and generally the direction lines as far as I can tell) was removed—either for
distribution or for transfer to another forme—leaving the bare type-pages to be
tied up for later impression. "Replaced" means that the tied-up pages, complete
with their previous skeletons, were newly imposed for reimpression. When all the
pages of a forme were replaced unaltered, I would not rule out the possibility that
they were still locked in their chase when set aside.

As it is difficult to assign a significance to transfers of individual types in skel-
etons, I have mentioned only cases where two or more types in a cluster seem to
have been moved together.

A. PHASE I

As I demonstrated in §9A, the quires were likely printed in the order B-C-
D-A-a. Quires B and C have different measures and could have been composed
simultaneously. Quire "a" has the same measure as quire B and was possibly
composed with the same stick. English-sized type (20 lines = 96 mm) is used for
the text throughout.