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Søren<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">You may not have noticed this (as an American) but in certain cases</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Egmont's stories and others have been scanned at such a low quality that</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">the original, which might date back some 20+ years, looks much better</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">than the modern reprint itself.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Effectively we see new fancy colouring combined with the ability to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">count the pixels.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">So much for the "new" digital world.</font></div> </blockquote><br></div><div>As a production person irrespective of nationality I've seen digital reproduction all up and down the quailty scale. The mistake so often made is believing that quality is determined by method, when that factor is always up to the human beings who apply the method, the time and resources they have to apply to it, and the source material they're given to work with in the first place.</div><div><br></div><div>The digital world is here, in all it's still too often misunderstood wonders. The sticking point is what we human beings make of it.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary</div></body></html>