Making color photos print as grayscale

I am working on a large book with lots of photos. The final book will print 4 spot colors and the photos will be converted to grayscale. I would like to place the original source color photos into InDesign and make them print grayscale, while allowing the other color elements in the document (type, charts, and rules) to print in color.
This would save lots of time doing grayscale conversions, and organizing two sets of photos.
-- My plan is to have the printer do the final grayscale conversions.
Does anyone know anyway to do this?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Dave

When printing from ID, go to Output and change color to Composite Gray.
Edit> didn't see that you wanted other elements to print color. Quite simply you would have to bring the images into ID as grayscale already to achieve this.

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