Ben Day process
Puntos Ben-Day
- Date
- 1879 · confidence high
- Place
- New York, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Benjamin Henry Day, Jr.
- Field
- Tools
What it is
The Ben Day process is a printing and photoengraving technique that creates areas of gray or color using fine patterns of ink dots, developed by illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day Jr.
What it led to
- low-cost color printing in press and illustration
- pop-art aesthetics based on dot patterns (Lichtenstein)
- standardization of halftone in the printing industry
- advances toward four-color offset printing