Digital BW, The Print

Hey experts, Im a somewhat informed novice, who is embarking on a digital capture 
photography project which will culminate with what I need  to have be a state of the art 
artistic and archival digital out put...up to circa 30 x 40 "  I have begun to research and 
this site seems to me to be  a great place to get help. I have yet to purchase the camera 
and lenses I will use for the project and need to develop a budget  including edition out 
put and digital dark room needs. Any printer out put knowlege would be very helpful as I 
hope to predict the printing cost via being sold on hopefully top of the line digital b/w 
output.
.I know its alot to ask for a complete respnse to this post but I am hoping some generous 
souls may help me here a bit..Recomended articals or web site suggestions would be 
appriciated. Best Robert