Digital BW, The Print

Someone earlier had posted "technical" print exchange with the same 
idea. I had joined, but I have not heard anymore. The problem is to 
get a good image - who would volunteer their high resolution to be 
out in the public domain? Test images, such as the Fuji (which I have 
used quite a bit) are useful, but not very meaningful for artistic 
expression.

I would gladly participate if we can swing this.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., André Vallejo <avs@p...> 
wrote:
> Aside from the usual print exchange that goes here,I was thinking of
> something different. There are now so many different combinations of
> ink,paper,printer and software,that it´s very hard for most of us 
now to
> evaluate what's "better". So my idea is:
> Someone chooses a representative image and upload it to the list 
archive.
> All those who participate download it and print it with a certain
> combination. Variables could be:
> 
> Inks: MIS VM,VM-Sepia and FS,Piezo in various flavors.
> Printers: 1160,1280,3000 and it's little sisters (like the 980)
> Paper: Maybe here we should stick to EAM only,otherwise the number 
of
> combination will grow wild.
> Drivers: Epson,Imageprint and Piezo.
> 
> So that we can stop wondering about differences and see for 
ourselves. Sure
> that who is printing will still be an uncontrolled variable,but 
there are
> limits to this idea...
> 
> Any ideas about this and how to improve and implement it?
> 
> André Vallejo