benday process

printing
Also known as: Ben Day process

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  • In photoengraving: The benday process

    An entirely mechanical procedure for production of a halftone image on a metal printing plate is the benday process (1879), named after its inventor, Benjamin Day, a New York newspaper engraver. This process utilizes a series of celluloid screens bearing raised images of…

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