Using one of the highest quality and largest professional flatbed scanners in the world. Far superior to photography. We work by appointment.
Not ready to book? Ask us for details and pricing first. No appointment needed to ask.
Scan any material up to 48″ by 70″ in size or larger:
Free Scans with Our Referral Program. Once you have used our services for the first time, we offer each individual artist one free scan for every artist you refer to us.
Chica Prints scans; we do not print. Send your scanned images to your printer for editing, customization, and proofs. If you do not have one, we can recommend a printer.
Your file goes to the printer of your choice for editing, customization, and proofs. Most printers can download it straight from the link we send you.
Ask us. We can recommend a printer who works well with our scans.
Printers vary in quality, ink, and output. A small proof compared against the original sets the benchmark before anything goes to full size.
First we scan your artwork, by appointment.
You get a link to review the scanned image, and so does your printer if you share it.
Your printer makes the proof and the final print from the approved file.
Printing artwork first requires a very high-quality image that will truly represent the art and its value. The original image is the key to the whole process, which is why it is known as the master image. The printer, paper, frame, and all other considerations will not matter if you have a poor quality digitally scanned image of your art.
We work by appointment. Contact us at email address shown after a quick security check or 631-563-6366 to make one, or just to ask for details and pricing first. Or ship your artwork to: Chica Prints, 1505 Lincoln Ave, Holbrook NY 11741.
We will provide you with a link so you or your printer can review and approve the professionally scanned digital artwork.
Send the scan to your printer for proofs, editing, and customization, or ask us to recommend one. The original artwork is returned.
A partial selection of the artists we work with.
Alan Brown
Michael Hamilton
Hillary Serota Needle
Walt Winchurch
Marissa Levien
Yolanda Lezama Clark
Kelynn Alder
Melanie Nieske
Beatrice Barkin
Gary Chiappa
Janice Gordon
Steven MahlerScanning your art creates an archival digital copy for revenue prints, storage, legacy and use by future generations.
It also allows for disaster recovery from:
At Chica Prints we use one of the largest and best quality professional art scanners in the world. We work in cooperation with your printer, or can recommend one. We strive to build long-term relationships, so we welcome your questions and will gladly assist as needed.
Since 2003 we have provided expert imaging solutions offering one-on-one services. We are a boutique family scanning service for artists. Our main focus is to provide a premier custom service for our customers, and deliver high quality scanned images that can be printed on premium quality papers and other mediums by your printer.
We actively work in partnership with local and nationwide artists & printers to digitize artwork no matter how small or large the piece, or even if it is mounted.
We work by appointment. Email or call if you need more information about our services or wish to set one up.
★★★★★
“What an amazing experience. Can you imagine dealing with people who actually know what they’re doing? That’s what will happen if you choose Chica Prints. They recently scanned some original art for an album cover and did an absolutely amazing job. Their service is impeccable. Super nice people with a family vibe. I will absolutely use them for everything in the future and recommend them whenever I have the chance. If you are looking to have images scanned no need to look anywhere else. This company is the real deal. Thank you so much!”
Mark Cimino, Google review
★★★★★
“Super convenient and fairly priced! I digitalized 5 of my paintings there at once and the whole process was straightforward, fast and simple. Got great scans of some big acrylic paintings that are varnished and have some texture ( impasto) which makes them very hard to photograph. The communication was perfect too, Hellman responded to all of my questions very quickly. Really great service overall! Thank you guys!”
Eleni Colleony, Google review
★★★★★
“I am a fine artist and always use chica prints to scan my artwork. They do an amazing job and handle my work with extreme care. The scans are of the highest quality and they are able to usually get the scans completed very quickly for me.”
Trisha Zuvich, Google review
Not ready to book? Ask for details and pricing first. We reply by email or phone, and there is no appointment needed to ask.
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Chica Prints
1505 Lincoln Ave
Holbrook NY 11741
We work by appointment. Call or email for details and pricing, to schedule a drop-off, or to arrange shipping your artwork to the address above.
In the past digital backs or photography were used. But we instead use professional oversize flatbed scanners which have cameras that are right up against the glass, and slowly illuminate and scroll down the artwork generating very high quality images that are also geometrically accurate to the dimensions of the original art. Far superior to photography.
We can scan items up to 48″ by 70″ in size and up to 600 DPI in color, grayscale, or B&W. We can also scan larger pieces in multiple passes.
Yes, our focus is on scanning oversize, valuable, unique & delicate items that require specialized equipment.
We can email, post the images to our SFTP for download, or copy them to the customer’s external drive.
Yes. We work by appointment. Call or email to set one up, or ship your artwork to us.
No, we scan. Send your images to your printer for editing, customization, and proofs, or ask us and we will recommend a printer.
We do stand by our services and if for any reason the scan is not what you expected, we will re-do it at no charge.
We accept all different forms of payment from cash and check to Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards.