Digital BW, The Print

Hi Folks

Just about to compliment my wet darkroom with a dry one! I have two 
issues I need a little advice with:

1. Film Scanner - I want to print at at max size of A3+ Will a Minolta 
Scan Dual III be capable of producing enough resolution/detail to 
produce a quality image of that size or should I go for the new Minolta 
5400. I appreciate you need a good neg to start with :)

I do have an epson 860 with an old version of piezo and MIS FSN Quad 
inks that produces ok results considering that I am scanning prints.

2. Printer - Am I better off upgrading the piezo system and using a 
1290s or go to the 2100? As I don't have a colour printer the 2100 seems 
a good bet - especially as we have the gray balancer - but are prints 
from the 2100 of the same or better quality than using piezp with the 1290s

Appreciate that there will be lots of different views on this but any 
advice might help me reach a solution that will not need to be upgraded 
in the next few months...we wish eh :)

Many thanks in advance

Carl Radford
carl@...
www.scottishmonochrome.co.uk