Maybe my brain is fried this late, but here's my opinion...
You're starting with two images, one digital, the other film, so one exists only as data, the other is a physical object.
You could either do one of two things, translate the film to digital (what they do) or translate the digital to a physical medium.
The reason they take the first path is that scanners are capable of higher resolution than the film will support, thus the scanner does not impact the comparison.
A monitor also is a better place to compare the two images than in print.
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