Type and/or blocks are placed in a metal frame, or 'chase'. We fill areas that do not print with spacing material and hold it all together by tightening metal wedges, or 'quoins'. The whole thing locked together is called a 'forme'.
Locking up a forme

Atelier Works
Phil Baines
Esterson Lackersteen
McColl
HSAG
Michael-Nash Associates
NB:Studio
The Partners
Pentagram
Senate
Smith & Milton
Together Design
Trickett & Webb
Webb & Webb
Wolff Olins

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