Scanning an original you would rather not put in the mail.

A one-of-a-kind painting. A fragile family photograph. A drawing somebody made who is not here to make another one. The usual advice is to send it away to be digitised, and the usual reason people never do it is that sentence.

Scanning and printing happen on the same production floor as the framing here, which means an original can be reproduced and framed without leaving the building.

On the flatbed

With flatbed scanning we can achieve up to 600 dpi. Art and photographs go on the glass and come back as a high-resolution file.

On screen, with our digital artists

Every scan is gone over by our digital artists, who make sure the color and the composition are true to the original before anything is printed. The scanner is large-format, so even a big painting goes face down on the glass.

What you do with the file

The file is prepared and color-matched here before anything is printed, on the same floor and with the same color management as the giclée prints. From there it can become an archival giclée print, a canvas, a print on wood or aluminum, or simply a file you keep.

A common version of this job: the original goes back on the wall in its own frame, and the copy is what gets sent to the rest of the family.