Durova wrote:
> Restoration is inherently interpretive.  Consider something simple: a
> newspaper cartoon in black and white.  There are many possible whites; which
> do you select?  

The reasonable assumption is that the background white is an unprinted 
area; the white is a function of the paper rather than of the 
printing..  Otherwise we need to distinguish between a printing on fresh 
paper and an old printing on paper that has since yellowed with age.

Ec

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