Disney-comics digest #790.

[Don Rosa]

GREG K.:
        You say a color page can be scanned and then the color removed by
computer. I'm certain that's true. Then you'd print out the b&w art? Would
the line work be perfectly smooth and with 100% fidelity to the original?
Maybe it would, I dunno.
        But what about this "scanner"? How does that work? Can you simply
gently lay an open comic book down on it and get a PERFECT copy with the
colors clearly defined (then to be removed) and the black lines crisp and
sharp? You realize that this "scanner" can't be something that you feed a
page into or something which exerts ANY pressure whatsoever on the original,
and the original can be the size of a two-page spread of a comic book? You
do understand that the entire problem in not being able to print perfect
reprints of these old giveaway comics is the need to find a way to do it
that does not risk the slightest damage to the original comic. These things
are valued in the thousands of dollars, and are usually owned by the sorts
of people who believe that the slightest new "stress mark at a staple" or
such will harm the investment potential by specific dollar amounts that are
of more interest to them than anyone seeing a reprint of the thing. (Hey,
for that matter, not letting anyone even THINK of trying to make a copy of
it will certainly make it even more valuable, therefore another reason not
to allow it, other than the possibility of ever-so-slight damage.)