Ouch! Tough questions. I was a color darkroom technician for a couple years. It can be done but it is one big pain and unless you have some previous experience the learning curve can become quite expensive. Chemistry and paper for slides reproduction is not cheap. Not here anyway. I have never been a big fan of color prints from slides. The contrast and colors never seem quite right to me. Another option for you maybe to find a lab/repro shop that has a good scanner/operator and get it done that way. Then you can crop, tweak, and correct on your own. If you get a cheap epson color printer you can do alot of your own prints and once in awhile treat yourself to an iris or a pictro. My opinon is a good to great scan will beat a print 9 times out of 10.