Digital BW, The Print

I use Vuescan as well, at least with BW negatives. The FH-3 carrier is a 
necessity, as it give much better edge-to-edge sharpness than the auto 
strip reader.  Vuescan infrared cleaning does a much better job than it 
used to, but it's not as good as ICE, as a back-to-back comparison will 
show you.  Nikon scan does a better job with color negatives generally 
than Vuescan does, whereas Vuescan does a much better job with BW.  I 
have Vuescan make the BW image using the green channel, as in my setup 
this gives better results than using some of the red and green channels.