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QTR is intended for printers that have black and at least one or two shades of grey. So when you install QTR, you will see that the folder for the R2000 curves is empty, because it doesn't. I suppose you could create a QTR curve with only one black, but I'm not sure that would improve matters all that much, and it may make matters worse. Neither single black (MK or PK) would be neutral, and you'd need to configure QTR to add in certain colours in very small proportions in order to make them neutral. This would take some trial and error, and ultimately I suspect that you wouldn't be all that better off compared to printing via the Epson driver.

If your friend wants only to print B&W, then he or she could put one of the monochrome-only ink sets in the printer, such as Piezography or Eboni6, using refillable cartridges, and print with QTR. I know at least one person using an R2000 this way and I'm using an R1900, which is virtually identical, with Piezography. I'm just finalising a series of short blog posts on this sort of topic, if there's any interest.

If he wants to stick with Epson inks and print using its greyscale mode then I'm sorry to say that he's probably out of luck. If you read the more informed reviews of this printer, it's poor B&W performance is generally commented upon.

However if you read Kenneth Cooper's review:
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/reviews/printer/epson_r2000.html
you'll read that he got good prints by printing with a custom colour profile. In his case "good" is defined in terms of neutral toning. In my view there's more to "good" that just that, but it's a starting point.

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