What is the quality of the reproduction for the Keepsake Pages and Editions? Are they color or black & white?
A. With the exception of recent years – from 1999 until present – keepsake products are created from high-resolution scans of microfilm. The resulting print, on high-quality paper, shows the imperfections of age and the photographic process. In full-scale versions, most if not all, text is legible. In reduced versions, headlines and sub-heads read well, but some of the text is more easily read using a magnifier. We include one with each keepsake edition. Though photographs that appeared in the original paper do not translate as well as they originally did, that adds to the historic nature of the page. Pages after 1999 are generally produced from the digital file that was used to print the original newspaper. These newer pages are essentially flawless. Keepsake front pages are available in color starting in 1998. Keepsake editions are produced in black and white, regardless if the original page was in color.
