I'd guess the only people who would be interested are high volume text printers who already have one of these or are going to buy one based almost entirely on their high volume text printing needs. However, they may want something that uses other than the cheap dyes and maybe something that can make good photos (and text) that would be archival. I doubt it';s worth a B&W ink company investing in setting up a workflow, but it's easy enough to throw out the cheap dyes and put in carbon inks of some sort (better flush first -- recall the old Epson dye incompatibilities). I've also used Noritsu dyes in the 1100 (way more lightfast than what Epson puts in the ET printers).
As to durability, I've been using my WF 1100 pretty much since they were introduced as my everyday and high volume text printer. These are made for high volume office work, and if my WF1100 is representative, they are very durable and reliable with carbon inksets installed.
FWIW
Paul
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Walker Blackwell forums@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Are people going to plunk down the money that is mostly the cost of the initial ink tanks just to turn it to a hacked bw printer? How many people? My guess is these printers are warrentied and designed for a single tank of ink and they will fail on the second or third filling . . .
On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Paul Roark roark.paul@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:As a substitute for QTR, I made Photoshop curves for several inkset approaches. It may well be that those can be linearized via Create ICC-RGB for the newer WorkForce & EcoTank models.PaulOn Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:55 AM, robert49brake@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:Sorry don't know where those 'h's came from in eco tank:)