> That’s 2500 to 7500.- CHF worth of scans if I get a third party to do it.

This is how I ended up with my first laser printer.

My aunt was asked to publish a limited edition of a book she translated to German. The printer wanted a ~1000 dpi film and we got quotes on how much it'd cost to get the protolith done. We then concluded a good laser printer that could print on transparencies would be far cheaper and fit our budget, so we asked if that would work for the printer. When they said it would, we got the printer, I tweaked the halftoning a bit and off we went.

In the end, the German translation we did was perceivably better quality than the professionally typeset Portuguese version. And I got a nice laser printer.