The Whole Artistic Industry is Excited and Talking About
Tim Siahatgar's Revolutionary Processes...

GRAPHIC ARTS MONTHLY - August 1997

Is it Real or Is It.....
Okay, you're an artist and you have a problem. You want to create a limited series of identical prints, all of which are to accurately match your original. Sounds simple enough, now add caveat: you want to print onto a canvas that will preserve the art longer than usual means while protecting the image from chips, cracks, or scratches. To assist you with this problem, enter Tim Siahatgar who is the inventor of the Digitograf™ process ..........Getting it right..As digital imaging became more widespread, Siahatgar gravitated towards his customized equipments and color management, he began fine tuning his system of transference and developing a customized color management table...Gaining adherents...More people are taking notice of this quick, highly affordable process.

Jason Brainier - Editorial Assistant - GRAPHIC ARTS MONTHLY 8/97

THE BIG PICTURE - October 1997

E-Stat Art
"Artists who want their work to last shouldn't rely on water-based ink," warns Tim Siahatgar. He predicts that galleries and artists are in for a rude awakening a few years from now as angry art collectors bring back faded prints and demand a refund. Siahatgar has created an award-winning process that uses inkjet or electrostatic equipment to print and transfer oil-based "paints" to canvas. Another advantage is that artists can use the canvas of their choice, instead of the somewhat stiff top-coated canvas required for inkjet printing.

excerpt from an article in the -THE BIG PICTURE 10/97

MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS - September 1997

Focus on Large-Format Color
California-based printing innovator develops new substrate for electrostatic printing systems. Although Tim Siahatgar is very reluctant to give out the exact details of how his process works, he will talk about the aspects. While some art galleries have shied away from digitally reproduced artwork because of substrates that do not hold the color or shrink or fade after a period of time, Siahatgar says that his process "will stand the test of time .... Because I am using UV-durable, oil-based inks, the formulation is such that not only will you have a crisp image with bright colors, rich tones, sharp contrasts," he adds, "the quality of [his] reproduction system far surpasses currently available conventional prints on canvas products, and cannot be easily damaged."

Ivars Bezdechi - Senior Contributing Editor - MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS 9/97

DIGITAL PRINTING IMAGING ASSOCIATION

The 4th Annual- Andre Schellenberg Awards Competition

1997 WINNER - Transfer, Textile, and Other Specialized Media
CRA PRODUCTIONS / Digitograf™ Studios - Irvine, CA . Tim M. Siahatgar, created
this print by using a Cactus output devise and Painter/Photoshop software.

dpi ASSOCIATION 1997

Entrepreneur Magazine

F.Y.I. Repligraph: A Revolutionary Process
A repligraph could be described several different ways: as a new kind of painting reproduction that astonishes experts with its near exact replication of the original. "Because a repligraph is reproduced on canvas, as opposed to paper, artists have the freedom to enhance or retouch their images to create a personal connection with the piece."......Writers and Photographers have always had a means of distributing true reproductions of their work. Now, thanks to Siahatgar's new process, fine artists can, for the first time, enjoy the same satisfaction.

Mark Filatrrau - Entreprenur Magazine

PHOTO IMAGING ENTREPRENUR - Oct/Nov 1997

Building a better image -
Irvine, Calif.- Tim Siahatgar is a true imaging entrepreneur. When he couldn't find the equipment he needed to produce the enduring oil-based images he wanted, he invented it......it's only a means to end the frustrations of the many struggling artists he has known over the past three decades...... Aware that the photography and art industries had been imitating each other for years...Siahatgar wanted to figure out a way to marry photography and art. Tim says, "With the Repligraph , I can make the kinds of changes today's artists need to create art directly from the computer." .......He endured more trials and tribulations, but emerged successful in 1995 with a new product he calls Digitograf™.....he said, "I need for people to understand what I'm trying to do for the art and photo market. By the year 2000, there will be just one road for the photographer and the artist."

Kathryn Woenstendiek - PHOTO IMAGING ENTREPRENUR Oct/Nov 1997

Computer Artist - June/July 1996

Computer Artist Nancy Vachani spent a year researching the best methods to output her painting on canvas. She found a fine-art printer- CRA PRODUCTIONS, in Irvine, California- that produces digitographs and repligraphs. Digitographs use oil-based, acid free inks on artist-grade canvas, printing at 400 dpi. Vachani experimented with different media on these prints and concluded that oils produce the best results.....
"Repligraphs are made from 8x10 transparencies and can output as large as 4x8 feet without loss of detail", she says. They can also be accented with oils. " Repligraphs re-create exactly the color and detail of the original without compromise" she enthuses..... I use a digital camera, I print the files on canvas at CRA PRODUCTIONS, which has developed a custom oil-based ink printing technology. I am particularly fond of this output since oil-based inks are very durable compared to water-based ink processes.

article by: Nancy A Hitchcock - Associated Editor of Computer Artist

ART BUSINESS NEWS - January 1995

NEW LINOGRAPH™ ART REPRODUCTION PROCESS DEVELOPED-Irvine, Calif.- A new Dry Canvas Tranfer process developed by CRA PRODUCTION is being offered to the industry. The product, known as Linograph, is similar to a canvas transfer, but the difference is that the image is removed from the print and transferred to the canvas, unlike a repligraph where a transparency is used in the process. Sue Powless, who runs Houston-based Somerset House Publishing's canvas transfer project, and has been studying samples, said,"It hasn't been out long, but from what I can tell, if it stands up over time it could be a really good process."......Somerset House planed to release a small two-canvas linograph suite by L.Gordon in December. Powless said the advantage of a linograph, from a publisher's point-of-view, was that the orders could be placed on an as-needed basis, according to the number of sales.

Decor Magazine - May l992

Repligraphs: The Next Step.......A new kind of limited edition reproduction, done directly on canvas, is a close facsimile of the artist's original painting.......A recently introduced process for producing limited edition reproductions is the "closest thing yet" to artist's original paintings, say publishers who have carried the new medium. Several publishers showed repligraphs at both Galeria and Artexpo N.Y. in March.......Repligraphs are produced with a dye-transfer process that utilizes an oil-based color film made from the original painting or from a transparency of the original. ..............In the tradition of limited edition reproductions, each repligraph is signed and numbered by the artist on the front of the canvas. Edition sizes are generally low, between 50 and 250 each. The cost of producing a repligraph is more than for prints on paper, and prices for the finished product vary widely from publisher to publisher. ........." If nobody told you different, you would think it was a painting." says Ken Washington of Cue Bee Publishing, Coram, N.Y. " there is not a better process for recreating the artist's work and capturing the essence of his original.".........."The potential is phenomenal," says Jack Appleton of Applejack Limited Editions, Glen Cove, N.Y., who exhibited two repligraphs at Galeria. " You get a really great-looking reproduction on canvas. When you hit the colors in just the right way, it looks just like the original."
by ALICE C. GIBSON, CPF - DECOR May l992

U.S. Art Magazine - June 1992

REPLIGRAPHY MEETS PHOTOGRAPHY...Artists who are now begining to reproduce their original artwork as Repligraph®'s often individualize each copy by enhancing, or touching up, portions of the work with oil paint. In creating his original artwork, however, Robert Copple of Seal Beach, Calif., reverses that process to push at the boundaries of fine art and blur the distinctions between reality and illision..

U.S. Art Magazine - June 1992

Inform - Art Sept./Oct. l992

JUST WHERE DO REPLIGRAPHS® FIT IN TODAY'S MARKET PLACE ?

Repligraphy. If you can figure out how to say it, you'll probably not forget the word. But just what is this new reproduction process and where does it fit in the pecking order of art currently available to collectors ?

Inform Art Sept. / Oct. 1992

WHAT'S NEW IN AMERICA'S GALLERIES ?

This Autumn promises to bring more than just changing leaves and cooler weather to art collector's lives. Some insiders suspect that repligraphy, the relatively new process that puts reproductions on canvas (see U.S.Art, May/June l992). will skyrocket in popularity. Several publishers may already have repligraphs heading for galleries this fall, and Penni Anne Cross is one artist now at work on her first repligraph® . Herb Doup, owner of Arctic Rose Galleries, Anchorage, Alaska, calls the process " the wave of the future".

Kathi Neal / Carri Camill

U.S.A. Magazine - July/August l99l

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK: REPLIGRAPHY

The rich look and feel of the Repligraph® on canvas and its status as an original reproduction are the medium's main attractions........

U.S.A. Magazine - July/August l99l

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