During the fall of 2000 Baird conducted a trial at the University of California at Berkeley.The resulting paper dealt with a new image-degradation model named Pessimal Print.

2000年秋天，贝尔德于加柏克莱分校主持一项测试，他最后的结案报告内提出了一「最差印刷」（PessimalPrint）的影像退化模型。