Benday Dots

Benday dots is a printing technique that has been developed by Benjamin (BEN) Day. (English dot = stain, spot )

In this printing process, making the small colored dots printed surfaces of a different color. Depending on the effect one wishes to achieve, the dots are printed close to each other or overlapping.

Comic book labels have used this technique first used in the 1950s and 1960s to to generate printed in primary colors and secondary colors shades points to favorable manner. Day adapted from the then newly created technology of color television, the principle of the shadow mask in the printing technology. Thus Benday dots represent a postmodern, Printable appearance of pointillism dar. Roy Lichtenstein used the technology as a style element in his first painted in the original, then transferred to the printing art art works. As a characteristic change in him, however, areas with dots, which are often so large at him boldly, that they in turn represent small areas per se.