Device independent Illustrator document?

If an Illustrator document can only be ALL CMYK or RGB how do you make a device independent document with black (100k) text?
Thank you very much.

No I'm saying if I have a request for some art in an Illustrator document from someone who is uncertain of the type of device that will output the final product, e.g., high-quality offset or a newspaper press or color Xerox or high-speed closed web, then I need to supply the document in RGB. That is, I can't convert the document to CMYK beforehand because no one knows which CMYK(s) to convert it to.
But if I leave the document in RGB the black text will convert to the CMYK rather than the desired 100K.
I think there's a work-around by going through Acrobat but I can't depend on that workflow.
This is why Adobe lets InDesign use both, RGB and CMYK, on the same doc but the printers around here are all packaging guys and won't accept anything but Illustrator files. I don't know why. There equipment may be ancient or they have no time to work things out correctly.
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