Is it possible to print a color PDF in pure black

I want to have full black and full white on the page, no grays.
Colored lines and text on drawings can make viewing them on the screen much easier, however if the drawing is printed on a monochrome printer, the gray scale is frequently done by halftoning the items.  This makes some lines disappear (if they fall between the dots) and at best they lines are fuzzy and the text hard to read.I use full Acrobat Pro at work (which can print in pure black) but the end users of the drawings will be using Adobe Reader.

Have you checked your Page Tiling?  (View>Show Page Tiling)  The border that you see will show you how it prints.  But you can save your file as an Illustrator PDF and then open it with Adobe Reader and given that your printer is borderless . . . you can print to the edges.  But a bleed is something where your design extends beyond the edge of the finished product and you cut into the bleed, trimming off some of the art and leaving a smaller product than the original paper size.

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    Hi all,
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