Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?

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Text 1
For decades a comic publisher had to guess at a print run and pay for the whole thing upfront. Halcyon Press now prints digitally: a title is produced in batches of thirty as orders arrive. Nothing sits in a warehouse, nothing is pulped, and a cartoonist with four hundred readers can keep a book permanently in print. Halcyon's owner says the press has published more first-time artists in three years than in the previous twenty.

Text 2
Digital presses shine on short runs and lose their advantage quickly. Past roughly two thousand copies, offset's cost per copy drops below digital's and keeps dropping. Houses reviving 1960s titles stay with offset for a second reason: those comics were printed with a handful of solid inks, and offset can mix that exact ink, while a digital press must build every color from four process colors, muddying the flat, poster-like reds the originals are known for.

Accepted Answer

A. Text 2 identifies particular jobs — long runs and faithful reprints of older comics — for which the method praised in Text 1 is poorly suited.. Text 2 opens by granting digital's strength on short runs and then names two conditions — runs above about two thousand copies and color-faithful reprints — where offset wins. A states exactly that limiting relationship. B attributes to Text 2 an objection it never raises; warehousing and pulping go unmentioned there. C turns a qualification into confirmation: Text 2's cost data describe where digital loses, not why small publishers thrive. D reverses Text 2's position, which defends continued use of offset.

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B. Text 2 disputes Text 1's claim that digital printing eliminates warehousing and waste. — Text 2 never mentions warehousing or pulping; its objections are cost per copy above about two thousand copies and color fidelity on reprints. Text 1's waste claim goes unchallenged.

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C. Text 2 supplies cost data that confirm Text 1's explanation of why small publishers now succeed. — Text 2's cost data show where digital *loses* its advantage — past roughly two thousand copies, offset becomes cheaper. That qualifies Text 1's enthusiasm rather than confirming its account of small publishers' success.

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D. Text 2 contends that digital printing has rendered offset printing obsolete. — Text 2 argues the opposite: houses stay with offset for long runs and for matching the solid inks of 1960s titles. It defends offset's continued use.

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Answer: A. Text 2 identifies particular jobs — long runs and faithful reprints of older comics — for which the method praised in Text 1 is poorly suited.

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