Hey Narya, sure, we can use digital scans too, if the raws exist and are good quality. For example right now I am searching for Amakusa 1637 v12. Our scanner is currently MIA and we are not sure if we can get that volume. We have HQ raws up to v11 kindly scanned by her. I found v12 here: https://manga-zip.info/dl/Amakusa-1637/ but it's MQ at best.
And the gutter shadow is not even the worst part, but the fact that the scans are so small. after releasing this in HQ for so log I would hate to finish this project on a MQ note. And chillipadi worked so hard to translate this. Ugh :((((