Printing a colour cover & B/W inside pages in booklet?

Hi There,
Just wondering what settings I should use to print a booklet, which has a colour cover but black and white inside pages? I seem to have more options in my printer driver on the PC then I do on the Mac which is strange. Perhaps I should update my mac driver? Anyone have an idea what options are best to select on Mac to make the printer print as I want? Or should I be determining these settings in the program I am developing the booklet instead, in this case InDesign.
It's imperative that I resolve this issue as we get charged per colour copy and I have a very large amount of booklets to print so it is greatly increasing our printing costs. Thanks!

Aaaaaahhh! Sorry! I just realized, the number of pages has to be divisible by 4!

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