Joiner,
Check out the printer that Ted Pella Inc is selling.  It makes 8.5 X 11 B&W
prints for $0.60 and it prints 256dpi with 256 greyscale values.  The
quality seems quite good, the process uses silver & a polyester paper.  You
can take scanned-in images from negatives to prints this way.  The machine
costs about $12K I think.  I saw it at our local society meeting last month.
 
Doug
 
(I have no affiliation with Ted Pella Inc)
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