Digital BW, The Print

Has this been done? I haven't followed this list very closely (397 digests
before I'm caught up ;-)), so I'm not sure if you guys have done this or
not, if so it might still be interesting to do with new inksets and printers
out. They are doing something similar with inksets/papers over in the epson
9000 list with a color file.

The idea would be to do a print exchange like normal, hopefully 25-30 people
or so, but everyone print the same file on the same paper with their
particular setup. The file should be something like the equivalent of ole no
moire for black and white... Should be full range of tones, areas of detail,
areas of smooth gradations, etc. Does anyone know of a good standard test
type image of that sort? Anyhow, Image X composited with a 21 step wedge or
somesuch on the side, and posted where we can all download it. Then we all
print it out, without modifying it in any way, on our individual set ups as
we normally do, and return to the coordinator (not me, I have neither time
nor inclination to co-ordinate, but I would very much like to participate).
I would vote for doing them letter size on Epson Archival Matte, because EAM
is cheap, readily available just about everywhere, and prints respectably
with most inks. Prints could be labeled on the  back with ink/workflow/print
setting information, so that participants could flip through the collection
and do a blind test.

Anybody else interested in this? I've read a lot of talk about different
inks/workflows/rips, but I'd like to have some examples in front of me to do
my own side by side. I'll volunteer two sets of prints, one with my 7600 and
the canned epson profile, and one with my 7600 using a custom built profile
from an eye-one.

We would need:

1) A Coordinator... Would be a great opportunity for someone who is shopping
for a system to get a lot of examples in return for a lot of careful
collating

2) An Image... Should be some hopefully standard testing sort of thing if
you know the type... Links to ideas would be great so we could all look and
give it the thumbs up/down

3) Participants... I'm thinking 25-30 if there are that many different
inkset/workflow/printer combinations, which I think there probably are.