Reply To: How do i make text black not four colour?

I think there are potentially two things happening here. First, when I want to print something with just black ink on my xerox color laser printer, I MUST click on the Printer button in the Print dialog box. This opens the printer driver dialog box, where I can control things relevant just for my printer. I can set it to Black and White there! That way, the driver only sends grayscale information to the printer.

Second, InDesign CS5 cannot create grayscale PDFs. They always appear to be tagged internally as color. You should, however, be able to print them as B&W on your printer from Acrobat, but only if you set that in the printer driver.

As for the automatic color to B&W to color… hm…. not sure. I wonder if you exported as PDF, then used Acrobat's Convert Colors feature to convert just the inner pages to grayscale. It might work, but I tend to be skeptical of any “intelligence” inside a printer that could truly tell the difference between one page and the next.