We offer professional artwork scanning for artists, specialising in high-resolution digitisation of original artworks for fine art printing, archival documentation, and reproduction. Our process is designed to carefully capture colour, texture, and detail while ensuring the safe handling of original works.
When creating prints from your original artwork, it’s imperative to start with an exceptional file. That's where we come in. We scan your original artwork at a true optical resolution of 600 pixels per inch, this enables your art to be enlarged up to four times its original size.
Why Scan With Us?
When you scan your artwork with us, you’re not just receiving a digital file — you’re working with a studio that understands the value and vulnerability of original art.
Our team approaches every artwork with care, precision, and respect, ensuring each scan captures the colour, texture, and detail of the original as accurate as possible.
All artworks are handled carefully throughout the process, and our equipment is professionally calibrated to deliver high-resolution files suitable for both archival and reproduction purposes.
Our artwork scanning service is commonly used for:
- Fine art print reproduction
- Archival records of original works
- Licensing and edition production
- Digital portfolios and online presentation
Exceptional Detail
While we can take credit for the passion, care and upkeep of our equipment, there is certainly some credit that must go to these machines. We Sell Prints only uses industry-leading equipment that is used throughout the world by the best image reproduces ensuring that even the most minute details are rendered in your final image.
We utilise the same state-of-the-art equipment for both scanning options; the difference is in the details of the finished file.
Raw Scan
We’ll scan your artwork and give you back a raw tiff. file. The scan has not been processed or retouched in any way. This is the most basic scanning option for people with extensive photoshop or retouching knowledge. If you intend to make fine art prints out of your scans we recommend our Full Service Scan option (below) for the best print outcome.
Basic Scan
We’ll scan your artwork, give it a basic retouch and clean up. We’ll give it a standard colour correction and provide you with a high resolution file. If you intend to make fine art prints out of your scans we recommend our Full Service Scan option (below) for the best print outcome. You’ll receive a master file, a low res file and an A4 proof on a fine art paper of your choice.
Full Service Scan
If you want to achieve the best possible result for your fine art prints, this is the option for you. We’ll take care of the scanning, detailed retouching, colour balancing and proofing - you’ll receive a master file, a low res file and an A4 proof on a fine art paper of your choice. The print-ready file will match your original artwork as close as possible.
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