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Ben Day
also ben·day or Ben·day (bĕn-dā′)n.
A method of adding a tone to a printed image by imposing a transparent sheet of dots or other patterns on the image at some stage of a photographic reproduction process.
[After Benjamin Henry Day (1838-1916), American printer.]
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benday
(ˌbɛnˈdeɪ)vb (tr)
(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) to produce using the Ben Day process
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Verb | 1. | benday - reproduce by the Benday process |
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