Digital BW, The Print

I'd like to ask Paul Roark about his input techniques: as I remember, 
he used to enlarge a medium format negative onto a species of 
high-contrast copy film, and then use a very modest flatbed to bring 
the image up in PShop. That always struck me as a cheap and elegant 
solution to film input, and judging by the work on his site, a very 
successful one as well. However, it does require the photographer 
to keep a corner of his wet darkroom in play. Paul, I gather you've 
now moved to a film scanner; can you comment on the qualitative 
changes it's brought to your work?
Bob Bollini