run upon sorts

Verb

 * 1)  To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.
 * 2) * American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327)
 * The writer remembers once printing a large index of map titles, which ran upon sorts so peculiarly that a two hundred-pound font of body letter had to be provided with two hundred pounds of sorts before the job was completed.