Originally Posted by
Oren Grad
For maximum quality this requires either contact printing on to silver-gelatin paper in the darkroom, or scanning to a digital file using a large flatbed scanner or stitched captures off a light panel or light table with a copy stand setup for processing and output via inkjet printer or laser to color or black and white silver-gelatin paper. There are specialist labs that are equipped to do some or all of these. But it will be labor-intensive and likely very expensive.
An alternative with some compromise in quality would be to place these on a large light table and photograph them via single exposure with a digital camera, then process the resulting digital files to make inkjet or laser digital prints. This too requires some experience and skill to do well, but it is potentially somewhat less labor-intensive and thus less costly than the higher-quality options. And depending on the technical quality of the negatives and on what you expect of the prints, this way may be adequate for your purposes.
How many negatives do you want to have printed? If it's more than a very few the total cost to have it done by a specialist lab could easily run into the many hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
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