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Winner – Salvador Dali: Arius Elegraph and Canon Elevated Printing Collaboration
This technology is part of Canon and Arius’ collaboration to create a scan-to-print process, combining Arius’ ultra-high-resolution scanning system that accurately measures the surface geometry and colour of paintings, with Canon’s innovative elevated printing technology on a modified Arizona flatbed that could print these images at equivalent elevation resolution. The resulting scan-to-print process led to projects with the National Gallery of Canada and Tate, successfully replicating a number of historic works in both collections, printing brushwork elevations up to 5 mm high.
These projects laid the foundation for the companies to target the contemporary art market, which in turn led to the development of a solution that living artists can take advantage of. Arius began to develop alta™, a creative studio that would allow both physical and digital artists to print their works, harness the power of the Arizona printer, and create original edition textured prints of an artist’s creation, called ElegraphTM prints. In 2022, Canon installed the first customized Arizona printer in North America at Arius to support ElegraphTM printmaking. This technological advancement has led to the launch of limited edition ElegraphTM prints to the art market.
For the Canadian Printing Awards, Arius Technology also submitted a printed piece from ther project Stale Amsterdam and Elegraph, which earned them the winning award for Specialty Project in the printing category and a nomination in the Top 5 for the Best of Show Award!
Read more about our collaboration with Arius here.