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I find most scans become washed out without some (often) quite serious post correction, normally need to raise the black clipping/contrast/shadows quite a bit, and pull back the highlights a bit. Colour is much more tricky though my scanning man usually does quite a good job.
I can't afford anywhere near a decent scanner so I get a good shop to do it. Epson v700/v750pro etc are the minimum quality scanner you should look at (They are the best flatbed going). Above that your looking at a Nikon coolscan, 35mm jobs are about £800, but MF (upto 6x18) you can at least double that, probably more.
I've never had/found good prints from colour negative, only ever scan + web. B&W though I tend to work up quite a bit in darkroom when I get time, but the prints from those rarely find their way to the web (scanning prints = FAIL EVERY TIME) as you just cannot do them justice.