<trevor.r.simpson@...> wrote:
... I purchased QTR on the basis that it was supposed to do better B&W than the native Epson driver, noting that the R2000 was a printer that QTR supported. ...
The closest thing to the R2000 that I worked up as a B&W printing approach involved the R1800. The same approach appeared to work on the 1900 also. However, there are no pre-made profiles, and the OEM inkset was only supported with a black only (one channel) approach, which in my view micro-banded too much. See http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/R1800.htm and links.
With the 1400 I was able to make a decent print using a black only profile in combination with Y, LM, and LC together making a light gray. With the R2000 you could use the colors to make a gray, but it would not be that light. It's also very hard to balance the color inks to get a neutral gray. I don't really recommend it.
The highest quality B&W from a machine like the R2000 would be to run Eboni-6 or one of its variants in the printer. You can see the 1800 implementation of that here: http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-1800.pdf . Again, however, it's not an OEM inkset approach. You would not be able to print color.
Paul