1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / B / Blocked-up. [p. 10]
Type is said to be blocked-up, when owing to author, or over-pressure in press or machine-room, the formes cannot be printed off.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.