[DCRM-L] Two comments on the delta draft

[Noble, Richard]

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On color: If there is under current conditions one essential purpose in
noting color printing, it is to signal the presence of information that
cannot be conveyed in black-and-white reproduction. By that criterion,
monochrome printing of text or graphics in a color other than black must
be noted in some fashion. Even if "color printing" is defined as two or
more colors, would it not be appropriate to add that monochromatic color
printing should at least be noted?

The AACR2 definition is certainly deficient in its apparent exclusion of
e.g. a lithograph tinted in blue or fawn from the scope of color
printing. On that point David Woodruff is quite right.

5C3. "Generally 
> consider a colored illustration to be any illustration 
> printed in one or more colors other than black and white." I 
> know this has been a difficult issue, but the draft 
> definition would oblige us to call a sepia-printed engraving 
> a col. ill., which is awkward. In How to Identify Prints 
> (section 65) Bamber Gascoigne writes "Any print using more 
> than one ink constitutes an example of colour printing." This 
> implies that no monochromatic print can be an example of 
> color printing, even if printed red. Would it be possible to 
> consider a definition that falls between the draft definition 
> and the AACR2 definition ("An illustration in two or more 
> colours. Neither black nor white is a colour")? It could be 
> something like: "Generally consider a colored illustration to 
> be any illustration printed in two or more colors, one of 
> which may be black." This would be enough to avoid the 
> problem of monochromatic ill. while still letting tinted 
> lithographs be considered col. ill. (which, incidentally, 
> Gascoigne is at pains to distinguish from full color prints).
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