Artist Seeking...

Happy St Patrick's Day!!!

So I am thinking of doing screenprints of some of the works that I have done.  There reason behiind it is that I think I could offer prints at a lower price than I can the originals themselves.  Now that is where the dilemma comes in.
In the art world, a hand pulled screen print is worth as much for the first as the last, screen printing affords the artist the chance to charge as  much for the first one as the last one.  In my opinion, I could believe that is true if the piece was designed to be a print, but I don't do my artwork with screenprinting in mind.  Now, that is not to say that my work doesn't translate to silkscreening, but that I do not produce my work with that medium in mind.  I feel much more confident offering the original at an honest price for the time and work that it took to produce it and still being able to offer a print at a lower price. Remembering that the medium I usually work in is precision cut paper and can take 20-30 hours to produce, sometimes  more.  As opposed to being able to pull 50 prints in 1/4 of the time.
I do want to bring to light the fact that I am not producing posters, I am just producing the same work in a different medium.  Granted the original sketches and designs are alread done and the ease in which I can silkscreen the same piece is significantly noticeable, but the pieces are still mine and worth the price.  The problem is that with today's economy I feel that I should find a way of making my work available to the everyday person.  I have always felt that everyone in every financial class should be able to definitely enjoy but also be able to afford at least some of the art that most of the world feels is unattainable due to the exhorberant prices that galleries and artists sometimes charge.
I am quite aware of the fact that there are going to be a lot of artists and dealers of art who are going to disaggree with me and how I see this, but I feel that it's mine and I can do what I want with it.  I would rather have to continue to work my 9-5 job and make my art available to those who enjoy it than to hold out asking for prices people just can't afford.  I want my work to be seen and enjoyed not just gawked at for the number of zeros in my prices. I always said that I would not be a starving artist because I work for a living, but I would rather not be an artist than to think that I thought so much of myself that I couldn't be flexible in what I charge for a talent that God gave me.  Besides I get a lot  more out having a person own a piece because they truly love it than to have someone spending great amounts of money just because they think it makes them seem like more or that they are more concerned with the financial investment of it than the thought, message or feeling I am trying to convey through my work.
Now, before I close, please do not misunderstand me I would gladly take as many millions as someone is willing to pay.  I am just trying to establish that the work may have to be it's own reward.  I am aware that it is a gift and the glory of that gift may just be in the fact that I was given it.  I am good with that. I am still blessed.