Offset or benday dot printing. Which one do you prefer?

Offset or benday dot printing. Which one do you prefer?

I grew up back when dots were standard. Full ink looks nice for modern comics but the comics of my childhood just look wrong fully inked.

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If it used dots originally, use them in reprints.
If something is new today, don't fake age with phony retro styling.

And for anyone wondering, there is a difference between halftone and benday dots. With halftone the dots can vary in size, shape and position and are dynamically printed. Benday dots are all exactly the same. This is because benday dots are created by a field of fixed nozzles instead of a moving print head. Each nozzle has a different color ink in it and can only spray in one fixed place. This process used to be cheaper than full offset printing because it didn't require a movable print head and this was a simpler mechanism in the pre-computer age.

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No one on Yea Forums actually reads print comics do they...

Yall just jack off to cartoons and webcomics.

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The old dot comic method could really revitalize comics imo. Too bad about how everything is so expensive that they want you to pay 5$ for like 4 pages.

Isn't this like the third time this was posted?

Back in my day, th price of a comic was 35c (about a dollar in today's money) per issue for like, 20 pages. That was considered something of a ripoff from my father's day comics ran around 60 pages for a nickel.

Hardly anyone replied to the last couple threads. I wanted to have another go at it. It would appear no one here actually cares about print comics, though.

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Damn, you know nothing and you're so sure of yourself. Halftoning is an analog process that can be achieved through exposing an image through different screens. The dot size is determined by the intensity of the particular color. 100% analog, can be done by hand with no machinery.

I like when they use it for "flash backs"

I've never seen that. Can you give an example?

Everyone here has suffered enough abuse to at bare minimum pirate everything if not only consume comics through storytimes.

The last few years have been shit for DC and Marvel especially. Little less for DC but meh.

>100% analog, can be done by hand with no machinery.
you don't know what analog means

Can be, not only done.

Oh fuck off already.

honestly I more a fan of the lines across the face an bodies to give them depth and structure
theres a great Daredevil run in the late 70's early 80's that did this phenomenally

Honestly, I prefer offset on most reprints, dot printing looks way too gimmicky when used on nice glossy pages. I do wish they'd reprint older stories with dot printing on cheapo paper, not as garbage as they used to be, but that paper they use in Swamp Thing trades and most trades from before the mid 00s.

I grew up with full ink and dot printing is distracting to me. There is no reason to go back to dot printing.

I miss the old print stock you're talking about. It was basic medium weight mat paper that was just think enough to print on both sides in full color without bleeding. I had a bunch of Dark Horse Star Wars comics back in the day printed on that. I'm not a fan of glossy things in general. Too much glare.

Incredible Hercules, I think Deadpool had a whole issue where they aped Steranko's style because it was set in the past.

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fuck off dumbass, I'll pay for collections of celebrated works, I'm not shilling out 4 bucks for 20 pages of incomplete story

I didn't really like those. If I buy a book I want it to be good quality and last a while. I have some Vertigo trades from that era and the paper is already browning and dulling the colors

I don't care about printing techniques, flat color are objectively better than the airbrushed brown shit we have today

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I agree with you but here's a secret: my country's first Hellboy trades were in that and it looks beautiful on a mostly black paper