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Scanning you original artworks, paintings, photos or transparencies is a job Magnascan can provide with expertise.

We have probably the most scanning experience of anyone in the business in Australia. We have worked with high-end digital scanners since 1979 and have seen all the progress and advances in the techniques along the way.

Digital image capturing is almost a necessity in todays market if you want to distribute your work across the web. The internet has given everyone the opportunity to spread their message wide and far for not a lot of outlay, as long as you have your information in digital form. Creating a detailed, accurate reproduction of you original is a combination of science and craft, and at Magnascan, we have combined them to deliver our customers the best art, photo and document copying in the country. We can scan from oil, gouache, pastel, pencil, water colour, charcoal or even fabric original artworks and paintings, old or valuable documents and letters and any type of photographic print, transparency, slide or negative in colour or black and white.

Our expertise streches across all types of high-end digital and analogue drum scanners from Crosfield, Dr Hell (later Linotype) and Dia-Nippon, through to all types of flatbed scanners and reproduction cameras. We started on the original Crosfield 550 in the 70's (the worlds first digital graphics scanner) and have operated scanners ever since.

Our expertise is best shown in the quality of work we can produce from original artworks and paintings, artists and art galleries are tough judges, so we take pride in the fact we have done work for all standards of artists and galleries, stretching to even reproduction work for the Tate Gallery (St Ives). In our time we have scanned everything from oil paintings to 400 year old documents, you only get entrusted with that type of work when you know what your doing! Many of our scans are used to produce top quality Giclee archival prints and limited edition art runs that look so good its hard to tell the copy from the original.

Its not only artworks that we scan however, there is a strong call for quality image capturing from photographs, transparencies and slides, these can be a real test as not many people today have the experience of scanning film, its becoming outdated! But here at Magnascan we have scanned many thousands of negatives and slides, colour or black and white, and can assure you of a top quality result every time, from almost any type of original.

Print Info

What We Do

• What we do. Magnascan can supply a full range of printing services, from business cards to full colour brochures. We can print small runs and customize.

• What we have. Our impressive range of in house equipment includes high-end crosfield drum scanners, flat-bed scanners, high speed full colour copiers, powerful desktop macintosh workstations with the latest page makeup and image manipulation programs, a large format colour poster printer and a short-run celloglazing machine. We also have a fully equipped in-house photo studio with a comprehensive range of film and digital cameras capable of capturing sharp, clear images of your products & services. See below for a complete rundown of our inhouse equipment.

• Why we can do it. Having lots of equipment means nothing if you don't know how to use it, and this is where having a tradesman with 20 years of experience comes in, see for yourself what a difference it makes!

• When we do it. Our office hours are 8.30Am to 4.30Pm Monday to Friday.

Our Awards

GoldMedalWe always aim for a quality product and our successes at the PICA excellence in print awards is a reward for that aim.
We now have a total of 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals at the national awards and 4 gold and 2 silver at state level, with our latest success being at the 2007 national awards (1 gold & 2 bronze).
We are always competing against much larger businesses than ourselves, with more resourses and people, so its a very rewarding experience when we win, its what keeps us motivated. Keep an eye on our medal tally at the top, were not finished yet!

Digital Press

Canon Imagepress C1.imagePRESS C1
The most advanced digital printing press in the area. Bulk paper feeder, inline folding & stapling, document feeder automatically copies up to 250 pages, prints on thick card & vinyl. Prints, folds and staples up to 64 page a4 books automatically, and it can photocopy! Call us to find out what it can do for you!

Our Equipment

• Computer Workstations. We have 4 apple macintosh systems, an Intel chipped Quad core Powermac Tower, a 24' intel Imac, a G3 Imac and a dual processor G5, all running Apples leading operating system OSX, as well as 2 pentium 4's with windows xp. Applications include Quark Xpress 6.5, Adobe Illustrator cs5, Adobe Photoshop cs5, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Acrobat 9 professional, Adobe Indesign cs5, corel draw and microsoft office suite.

• Large Format Printer. Our large format printer is the epson 9800, probably the finest quality large printer in the world. Its capable of printing resolutions upto 2880dpi and can image that at 1180mm by any length. Its ultrachrome k3 inkset is recognized as one of the premier archival inks on the market and can deliver stunning colour rendition and clarity.

• Crosfield scanner.  The Crosfield Drum scanner is legendary in its ability to produce the worlds highest resolution scans. With an input optical resolution of 8500dpi, it leaves even the most advanced flatbed scanners for dead. The secret is in its use of photomultipliers not ccd's to capture the digital signal. Its input size for prints and transparencies is 500x650mm.

• Flatbed Scanner. We also have a flatbed scanner from epson, the v-700. Its a fast, capable scanning unit, coming as close as you can get to the drum scanner quality, but possessing the important advantage of being able to scan non flexible originals.

• Celloglazer. Our new celloglazing machine can matt or gloss celloglaze single or double sided stock up to 315mm wide. Perfect for short run covers and cards!