Epson R2400 Advanced B/W printing

Hi
I am trying to print Advanced B/W to an Epson R2400 in Aperture ...
Normally when printing colour you set the print driver to Color Management Off and select an appropriate Colorsync ICC profile in the Aperture print dialog. All this is fine.
When printing Advanced B/W you need to have no color profile active and let the driver do the color management. For example, in Photoshop you select "Let Printer Determine Colors".
In Aperture you can choose "System Managed" or a Colorsync Profile. There is no option for switching off color management.
"System Managed" seems to mean to use the default Colorsync profile for the device, which would be an Epson ICC profile. Is this correct ?
Or is the Mac smart enough to work out that the driver wants to take control when I select System Managed ?
Anybody know ?
Thanks
Guy
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Guy,
This is why it would be nice to know the definative
answer for an Apple engineer.
Those are hard to come by. If you do get ahold of an Apple Engineer tie him up until I can ask a few questions too. I suspect that the answer that Kendall gave above is correct though I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
I wonder if there is some experiment that could be done to check for certain? How about using the save as PDF button to intercept the image after it leaves Aperture and before the Epson driver gets its hands on it to see what color space it is in? I'll fiddle with that later too.
If what you are working on is a digital camera RAW file that you wish to print in Advanced B&W mode then there has to be some sort of conversion to a profile done before it goes to the printer driver. RAW files live in Aperture's internal color space and that's not something the Epson driver will understand.
Your OP says that a profile conversion messes up the Epson driver's Advanced B&W mode. I haven't heard this--what's your source for that information? Is it really true that the driver could handle a file in Adobe RGB but not one converted to "SRP 2400 Default" profile? That seems unlikely but it's a strange universe......
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