Sorry David,
When I place the pdf's on to indesign pages and use indesigns separation preview the black is correct.
These pdf's come from a customer to be printed at our shop.
Eugene: These files are not made locally in indesign all I receive is PDF's
So maybe to explain just a little better 
Customer sends us PDF's of their publication (pretty sure they did it in indesign), when i do a preflight in acrobat some of the black text appears to have 4 colour mix. Place those same pdf's into indesign and do a separation preview and the black text is not 4 colour but correct at Black.
The PDF's are not low res the photo's in them are cmyk and of high quality.
Thank you both
Kevin
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