Since 1949, ADEVA, the world's greatest facsimile publisher, has been known
for manufacturing quality facsimile edition books- true to the originals, from all
civilizations. Their facsimile production uses the most advanced technology-
laser-scanning - as well as traditional bookbinding methods.
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How is a quality facsimile edition made?
Making a true-color facsimile of an original manuscript is not a simple process of placing the manuscript on a color copying-machine. Care must be taken of damaging the irreplaceable manuscript which may be brittle with age. Making a facsimile involves a complicated expensive process of using a highly sensitive electronic scanner combined with modern film and plate-making techniques. The scanner assumes the task of filtering and separating the colors- yellow, cyan (blue) magenta (red) and black onto separate digital color images- paying special attention to the intensities of each color. These digital color exposures match the color intensities of the original manuscript and will be combined using the smallest color particles undetectable to the human eye.
The resulting digital plate is not able to illuminate the manuscript with gold and silver colors as with the other colors. In order to reproduce the gold and silver, a further specialized process is needed using metallic colors, true to the original gold and silver particle placement, and a special silver and gold foil overlay. The difficulty of reproducing an "exact" replica involves precise placement of the separated color images, including black, creating a montage of color information onto one plate which is then printed on paper which has the "looks" and feel of the original paper. Only then is the facsimile true to the original manuscript.
During the binding process of the facsimile, great care is taken to preserve the character and look of the original manuscript binding so that the facsimile appears to look like the original even though modern book-binding methods are used. Because of this, much "handwork" is employed in this final stage of production using quality leather or cloth materials.
The stringent requirements for a high-quality facsimiles are complete reproduction perfectly matching the original manuscript (including added notes concerning the history of the manuscript, blank pages and endpapers), color reproduction, including silver and gold, which exactly match the original, original size and original margin-cut size, bindings which match the original (including the manuscript's layer's structure), and a limited edition of between 99 and 999 copies.