Newbie question: Can't get 100% black

I have created text. When it prints, I am getting 4 color plates. I filled with foreground color that is 100% black. What am I missing? Thanks for any help.
Photoshop 9.0.2; Mac OS 10.4.8; System: PowerPC G5

In CMYK, you can render black 2 ways: as "rich black" (made up of all four plates), or "black-only" (made up of black ink only.)
When you say you created the text with "foreground color... 100% black", that probably means you used Photoshop's default colors - black and white. If you open the color picker and look at how the default black is made, you'll see that it's a combination of C, M, Y and K.
If you are creating the file in CMYK mode, you can open the color picker, enter 0/0/0/100 in the CMYK fields, and fill your type or shape. You'll have 100% black and no other colors.
If you're creating your file in RGB, you're SOL. When you convert to CMYK, all black will be converted to rich black using the CMYK build as defined by the CMYK profile to which you're converting. In that case, you would have to go back into the CMYK file and manually fix all the elements that are supposed to be black-only.
It's a rather nasty can of worms. This is one of the things that keeps an RGB workflow from being accepted universally by the prepress community. There are tools available (Alwan, etc.) that will preserve black-only elements as the file gets converted from RGB to CMYK, but they are not widely used yet.
(ed. - Peter, It looks like we cross-posted...)

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