Digital BW, The Print

Thank you in advance for reading this and replying if you have the time.
   
  These questions may have (probably have) been answered previous posts.  I have gone to the archives and looked through them as well as the last month's previous postings.  I don't mind doing that but it is getting hard for me to put it all together with my mix of photographic equipment, experience,t and printer.
   
  Here is my equipment:
   
  9   cameras including,  
       2 sx-70's
       Holga with Polaroid back
       6x9 pinhole camera (Zero image)
       hand-made 4x5 pinhold box camera
       medium format Yashica Matt 124
       medium format Pentax 645
       Nikon N80
       Nikon D70
       (Old 35 mm camera)
       (recently had another 33mm camera stolen and gave away  2 pinhole cameras but still can't climb a mountain with all that equipment)
    
  1    Printer Epson 2200 
   
  More Information:   I have been intersted for a couple of years with alternative photography, doing sx70 manipulation work, DayLab printing on both B&W and color 4x5 Polaroid.  It has been fun, although expensive and the sx-70 film is no longer being manufactured, as you may know.  Now I would like to try both contact printing and/or both B&W & toned digital printing.  I also still do some personal family and contracted color portrait photography/printing.
   
  Question 1:  Are any of you still doing contact printing using platinum/pladidium, selenium, etc., printing?  If so, what typing of prints do you prefer this process for?  What type of negatives are you using; i.e,  digital negatives, 4x5, 5x7, etc?
   
  If not, why did you quit/change?
   
  Questions 2, 3, 4  re  Contact printing.  Given my equipment and with abbreviated B&W lab printing experience (sensitive to chemicals--gave me migraine headaches), do you thinik it is a good idea to try platinum/paladium printing, given that I have been motivated to do so for some time?   (Someone I know can build a UV box any size I wish for a very low cost.  I have no other B&W printing lab equipment.)
   
  Should I use digital negatives for contact printing or sell some equipment and switch to a larger format film camera.  
   
  If I use digital negatives, do I need a larger megapixel digital camera for 11x14 + printing?
   
   
  Question 4:  Given that I still do color printing, would you suggest a dedicated B&W printer or can I use a color k3 (is that 2200) + rip and special inks(?) for b&w printing.
   
  That would save buying another printer.  But if I should buy another printer?  What?
   
  These are more questions than you have time or care to answer (or have the experience in contact printing) to answwer.)  Any combination of questions you can answer, I would love to receive.
   
  Sorry for the length of this posting.
   
  Nancy (with the smiling face)
   




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