Forcing Black and White in JPEG

HI,
I must output a jpeg with only 2 colors 000000 and FFFFFF
I've done everything I can think of... no anti-aliasing..feathering......
however... when i save as jpeg.. enevitably i end up with a few pixels at 010101 and 020202 instead of 000000.
anyideas on how to force JUST 000000 and FFFFFF?
Thanks

Thanks folks...
I had aplay with the curves and that seems to have taken out most of the offending pixels...
However as pointed out... the jpg compression is still giving me some grief.
Unfortunatly the delivery sepcs are insistant on JPG.. so i've just given them the best I can do within its abilities.
Ive also delivered a TIFF and BMP alongside the PSD files.
thanks for the help.

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