Order Art Reproduction

Here's a quick summary of how this works.
 

1. If this is your first time, please contact us to arrange a consultation. before making your order online.
2. If you're already familiar with the process, then you can submit your online order and supply any notes required.
3. Send your artwork to us, or drop it into our North Melbourne office (please make an appointment).
4. We'll keep you up to date as we process your order (and please note our current turnarounds - art reproduction is time consuming work and has longer turnarounds than the rest of our services!).

We offer two service options for artwork scanning:
 

• Print Ready Scans have our retouching time built into the price. This is time budgeted, but typically includes dust/scratch/blemish cleanup type work, full colour correction, tonal balancing, correct assigning of black and white points, sharpening, and optional background tone stripping. This service also includes an A4 proof print in the price. Almost everyone chooses our Ready To Print service, as doing the necessary retouching work takes both great quality, calibrated, colour accurate equipment, and a lot of skill and experience to do well.

• Raw Scans are straight out of the scanner with absolutely nothing done to them. They are 'warts and all' and you will be required to do the necessary retouching work to them before they are accurate to the original and ready for print. Although our scanner is custom profiled and often quite colour accurate, the straight out of scanner 'raw' files are not yet completely print ready files - these files do still need some basic dust and scratch retouching, minor colour balancing work, and setting of final black and white points/contrast. 

N.B. Occasionally an unusual work comes along that requires significantly more work than is budgeted for in our set-price ready-to-print scanning service.  It might be that the work is more dirty than usual, or there might be complex colour issues. In these cases, the proof prints will show what we have achieved within the time budget, and we will then consult with you on the steps needed to get the files exactly where you want them! Extra retouching, if required, is charged at our normal retouching rates ($60/half hour).

High Resolution Scans (600ppi)

This is our default service, and the one that is most appropriate for almost all artwork scans. It offers pin sharp results and you can enlarge your works to at least double their original size with these scans.

Note this is a non-interpolated, true optical resolution, and nothing like the '600ppi' you would get back from a typical desktop scanner (which is in fact more like 150ppi or less, in optical terms).  Our scanner at 600ppi is much sharper and resolves dramatically more detail than other even other desktop scanners in their highest resolution modes (e.g. the completely made up figures of 4800ppi that even higher quality Epson scanners claim).

Our machine is the machine that e.g. the Vatican apparently uses to scan the Dead Sea Scrolls - at 600ppi!

The Print Ready service includes an A4 Proof Print in the price.

Super High Resolutions Scans (1200ppi)

In special cases, if your originals are small or very finely detailed, or if you are wanting to reproduce the work much larger than the original, then our even higher resolution scan option might prove useful.

Again, this 1200ppi is a non-interpolated, true optical resolution that is extracting all of the detail that is present in your original.

Please note 1200ppi files can be massive and you will need a powerful machine to work with these - e.g. a highly detailed A2 original scanned at 1200ppi can be over 3gb!

The Print Ready service includes an A4 Proof Print in the price.