Grayscale printing RBG

I work in the creative department for a newspaper. We currently use ID4 for the layout of ads and Quark 6 for the layout of news pages. We're having issues with grayscale ads printing RGB in our newspaper. When the ads are built within ID, each element is grayscale. The ad is then exported as a grayscale eps and imported into Quark.
This doesn't happen with every grayscale ad on a color spread. It's very random. All of our computers are calibrated with the same settings. Has anyone had similar issues? or can anyone point me in the direction to figuring out what's going on?

Nobody around here is fond of .eps. First thing is to be sure you aren't doing some sort of color conversion during the export -- ID doesn't support grayscale profiles and treats grayscale images as if they are on the black plate of the current CMYK space.
Second thing is whay use the .eps? Have you tried putting PDFs into Quark? I know there are some CID encoded font problems, but I don't think they would be eliminated by using the .eps format if you are in fact using Unicode extended characters (though I could be mistaken about that). I'd probably print to PDF rather than export in this particular circumstance, and start with the PDF/X-1-a preset.
Peter

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