inkjet negatives in a big enlarger - worth doing ?

I have come upon a 5x7 DeVere enlarger with dichroic head going very cheap. I already have a 5x4 DeVere which I use for rollfilm now. Getting the 5x7 will cause a considerable space problem in the darkroom so I need to find a justification if I am going to get it. I can see myself shooting 5x4 film one day but never 5x7.

I wonder about using negatives from a very good digital camera, converted to monochrome, and printed on transparency film using an inkjet printer in the 5x7 to make silver gelatin ( wet darkroom ) prints. I know this is usually done in the form of contact prints. Without the enlarger, for bigger prints all I would need to do is make a larger negative in the inkjet printer. Is there any advantage in trying to use a big enlarger for this ? Is this idea just too weird ?

Do you think the quality would be any good from a 5x7 inkjet negative printed to, say, 20x24 inch ? Would my existing 5x4 DeVere do as good a job ?

Perhaps someone here has thought of this or even tried it. Any feedback on this idea would be much appreciated.

Many Thanks .......... freecitizen

Not being Mr. darkroom printer here, I think what it would come down to is whether you can get something printed onto transparency film that would be as fine as a silver grain in say 100 iso film.

I'd stick with the 4x5 (5x4) btw.

Inkjet negatives have sufficient resolution for contact printing, but not enlarging. There are other strategies for going from digital to film (like CRT recording and LVT); you might want to investigate these, but they can get expensive. I've never tried these, but I wouldn't expect them to equal a contact print from a digital original or a high-quality film scan.

If you need justification for a 5x7 enlarger, do you like panoramae? You can shoot 617s with a 4x5 camera using a DaYi or similar extension back ($400-600), but you need a 5x7 enlarger for them. If you might ever be interested in shooting/enlarging them it could still be worth getting.
Also, I'm presuming the 5x7 enlarger has a higher head than the 4x5. That in itself could be justification enough as it lets you get bigger enlargments (if huge prints are your thing).

I know, you are thinking hybrid territory which isn't appropriate here.

You could take 35mm slides, enlarge them onto a sheet of 5x7 film through the camera filter you would have used if you were shooting black and white (yellow/red/etc)...

To make a 5x7 negatives to make silver gelatin prints from.

This is off topic for APUG, but appropriate for our sibling site, DPUG.org