diff --git a/app/main/views/send.py b/app/main/views/send.py
index 88c7035cf..5df777946 100644
--- a/app/main/views/send.py
+++ b/app/main/views/send.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ from io import BytesIO
 from contextlib import suppress
 from zipfile import BadZipFile
 from xlrd.biffh import XLRDError
-from wand.image import Image
 
 from flask import (
     request,
@@ -32,7 +31,14 @@ from app.main.uploader import (
     s3download
 )
 from app import job_api_client, service_api_client, current_service, user_api_client
-from app.utils import user_has_permissions, get_errors_for_csv, Spreadsheet, get_help_argument, get_template
+from app.utils import (
+    user_has_permissions,
+    get_errors_for_csv,
+    Spreadsheet,
+    get_help_argument,
+    get_template,
+    png_from_pdf,
+)
 
 
 def get_page_headings(template_type):
@@ -337,14 +343,9 @@ def check_messages_as_pdf(service_id, template_type, upload_id):
 @login_required
 @user_has_permissions('send_texts', 'send_emails', 'send_letters')
 def check_messages_as_png(service_id, template_type, upload_id):
-    output = BytesIO()
-    with Image(
-        blob=check_messages_as_pdf(service_id, template_type, upload_id).get_data()
-    ) as image:
-        with image.convert('png') as converted:
-            converted.save(file=output)
-    output.seek(0)
-    return send_file(output, mimetype='image/png')
+    return send_file(**png_from_pdf(
+        check_messages_as_pdf(service_id, template_type, upload_id)
+    ))
 
 
 @main.route("/services/<service_id>/<template_type>/check/<upload_id>", methods=['POST'])
diff --git a/app/main/views/templates.py b/app/main/views/templates.py
index 3aa19655d..13c5bf180 100644
--- a/app/main/views/templates.py
+++ b/app/main/views/templates.py
@@ -1,19 +1,17 @@
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
-from io import BytesIO
 from string import ascii_uppercase
 
 from flask import request, render_template, redirect, url_for, flash, abort, send_file
 from flask_login import login_required
 from flask_weasyprint import HTML, render_pdf
 from dateutil.parser import parse
-from wand.image import Image
 
 from notifications_utils.template import LetterPreviewTemplate
 from notifications_utils.recipients import first_column_headings
 from notifications_python_client.errors import HTTPError
 
 from app.main import main
-from app.utils import user_has_permissions, get_template
+from app.utils import user_has_permissions, get_template, png_from_pdf
 from app.main.forms import SMSTemplateForm, EmailTemplateForm, LetterTemplateForm
 from app.main.views.send import get_example_csv_rows
 from app import service_api_client, current_service, template_statistics_client
@@ -68,14 +66,9 @@ def view_letter_template_as_pdf(service_id, template_id):
 @login_required
 @user_has_permissions('view_activity', admin_override=True)
 def view_letter_template_as_png(service_id, template_id):
-    output = BytesIO()
-    with Image(
-        blob=view_letter_template_as_pdf(service_id, template_id).get_data()
-    ) as image:
-        with image.convert('png') as converted:
-            converted.save(file=output)
-    output.seek(0)
-    return send_file(output, mimetype='image/png')
+    return send_file(**png_from_pdf(
+        view_letter_template_as_pdf(service_id, template_id)
+    ))
 
 
 def _view_template_version(service_id, template_id, version, letters_as_pdf=False):
@@ -141,14 +134,9 @@ def view_template_version_as_pdf(service_id, template_id, version):
     any_=True
 )
 def view_template_version_as_png(service_id, template_id, version):
-    output = BytesIO()
-    with Image(
-        blob=view_template_version_as_pdf(service_id, template_id, version).get_data()
-    ) as image:
-        with image.convert('png') as converted:
-            converted.save(file=output)
-    output.seek(0)
-    return send_file(output, mimetype='image/png')
+    return send_file(**png_from_pdf(
+        view_template_version_as_pdf(service_id, template_id, version)
+    ))
 
 
 @main.route("/services/<service_id>/templates/add-<template_type>", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
diff --git a/app/utils.py b/app/utils.py
index 041e8cef0..50dc1df0c 100644
--- a/app/utils.py
+++ b/app/utils.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import re
 import csv
-from io import StringIO
+from io import StringIO, BytesIO
 from os import path
 from functools import wraps
 import unicodedata
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import unicodedata
 from flask import (abort, current_app, session, request, redirect, url_for)
 from flask_login import current_user
 
+from wand.image import Image
+
 from notifications_utils.template import (
     SMSPreviewTemplate,
     EmailPreviewTemplate,
@@ -257,3 +259,17 @@ def get_template(
             return LetterPreviewTemplate(
                 template
             )
+
+
+def png_from_pdf(pdf_endpoint):
+    output = BytesIO()
+    with Image(
+        blob=pdf_endpoint.get_data()
+    ) as image:
+        with image.convert('png') as converted:
+            converted.save(file=output)
+    output.seek(0)
+    return dict(
+        filename_or_fp=output,
+        mimetype='image/png',
+    )