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[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

color printed newspapers would catalog their back issues in black and white

Why? It's not expensive to set one copy aside and keep 365 of them a year into some cold dry storage, right?

[โ€“] Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The archives aren't newspapers, they are pictures of the newspapers on film that's ment to be read from the film and not developed.