Quote from: Colin YNWA on 16 May, 2024, 01:16:06 PMArh yeah good point I wonder if its just not available in black white form to reproduce from with the quality to justify it.
I'm slightly baffled by this... the colour was added after the linework was completed as a separate process. I would have thought scans/films of the original B&W must exist.
It's actually considered extremely bad practice for a professional colourist, particularly one working over someone else's line work, to use any black in the black in the colour mix — all colours are supposed to be percentages of cyan, magenta and yellow so, in theory, one could simply print only the black plate to get the original, uncoloured artwork...