Digital BW, The Print

Having just spent a day making 30 contact sheets, my thoughts 
again turned to using a flat bed scanner for doing the same 
thing.

I have tried this in the past with mixed luck. I found that with the 
low end UMAX scanner that I tried, it took much longer to get  a 
decent scan (e.g. one where there is reasonable contrast, 
shadow and highlight detail) than to make a single contact sheet 
in the darkroom.

If someone could find me a scanner and workflow that would get 
me one good contact sheet in 15 minutes then I might be 
inclined to try again.

At this point, I'm still happy printing wet, so the scans don't have 
to be good enough for enlargements.

Thoughts?

Thanks
Pete