Digital Fine Art

I am not interested in the cheapest, but the best - producing high quality photographs of art on a digital printer and relatively easy to use.

The best method of scanning possible is a high resolution drum scanning. What the lab scan the image at the highest resoluton the scanner can give - which could be as 5K dpi. They say that 300 is enough, but to a master design to scan and always yeilds a better product. Also scan in 16 bits. These costs at least $ 40/scan. A & I in Los Angeles, the new laboratory in San Francisco and West Coast Imaging all understand your request.

No ways? (Who can?) = A Nikon 4000 scanner table is the best way forward. Flatbed with transparency adapters are not really designed to scan film. Scan at the highest dpi = 4000 and 16 bits. Save as TIFF. copying files and work on the copy. When you are finished recording what the master file for this image.
When you're ready to print duplicate the image and resize it to 300 or 350 dpi. (You already make a sauce? You get better flavor using or consuming the water shares. This is the logic behind the resolution of the mass digitization.) Because you have a master file in 4000 dpi, you can size the image as you wish, to the extent and the print 300/350 (or as technology changes.) You never have to touch the image again. Saves a ton of work over time.

Printing on an Epson R2400-developed and optimized for fine b / w
printing.

Enjoy.

I have a HP ScanJet 5370C with a 6 x 6 "scan neg.

Very easy to use, scans at 1200 dpi, Black and white, color, vector, raster, OCR. I've had four years, thousands of negatives scanned and Transp. And it's still good.

The disappointment I had - and it was not the fault of the scanner: I scanned the negatives from an old pocket camera. The film was grainy and generally very small in this format. Yuck!

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It can not be both the scanner you choose, as the printer. cheaper printers can give a touch of B & W prints You need to go to a - as more expensive Epson - which had a dedicated b and photographic printing cycle w, or replace all the inks with b & w photographic inks, keeping a dedicated printer to work.