Digital BW, The Print

So far I have a good candidate for a test file, and about 4 participants.
Need some more people to participate and a volunteer to collate and ship...
That would be a good trade for someone who doesn't have output to contribute
themselves but would like to have a copy of them all.... Especially good if
you are lurking around thinking of buying something as I mentioned before.
Also, I would very much like to see some of this ImagePrint output... Any of
you IP fans care to put your money where your mouth is?

> 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.