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Posted By: E, Daniel

If you keep inks 50 years they age and change in how they display.
If you keep paper 50 years it too will tone and change and will not look the same post the printing process.
And those plates are large things, meant to run on awfully large printing machines (eg.30ft+ many many tonnes), and are not so easily accessed.
If you try and reproduce ink and paper with ingredients that are known but modern in construction, you will not end up at the exact same results, it just doesn't work that way. Sure at casual glance cyan is cyan and black is black, but put a pantone color chart next to the individual colors and the shades/tones that can arise are enormous.

I also seriously doubt a reprint would look much like an original t206 unless you accepted that the issue had great variation originally in display. ie. some stock had a different tone and feel and accepted the inks differently, thus resulting in an entirely different overall appearance.



Daniel