I'm a big fan of the WorkForce 1100 that I have. Quads are simpler to maintain/reload, and I do a lot of text printing (mostly for my wife). It's so fast with text that I had to put a tape at the end of the output tray to stop paper from being shot onto the floor. (They increased the speed of ejection to match the printing speed. The printer is slow with non-text, image printing.) It's made for office/text work, but can do as good an image as any quad printer.
The EcoTank line could be important. Note that Epson sells one model that has a carbon black in the K position. That black appears to dilute well with the generic dilution base. It's a little warmer than Eboni, but it is very cheap and internationally available. As a practical matter, it looks like Epson is now a supplier of that critical MK input to B&W printing; in fact, they may well be the baseline against which all others must be compared. I'll be doing further testing with this ink when time permits.
Paul
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:52 AM, robert49brake@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Any chance you might port QTR for the Workforce and/or ET printers? The Echo Tank printers have been available in Europe for some time, including now an A3 printer (ET 1400). A few models are also available in the US now and I'm sure they'll be readily available in Asia, ME, etc. They are also available as 100-240VAC 50/60hz so the same models will be used in Europe and the US. Prices are comparable on both sides of the Atlantic. To my brief inspection they all seem to be using the same variable droplet 3 picolitre print engine. A 4 ink version of Paul R.'s Eboni could work as well as other inksets. The echo tanks could relieve us from a lot of aftermarket cart headaches.
Thanks for listening.