Printer regonizes Black/white page as color page

When we print a Word document to a PDF file with the Acrobat printer, pages that contain only Black/White information but with an image that looks as if it is Black/White, the printer recognizes the page as a color page. When we print this page with Word directly to the printer, the page is recognized as a Black/White page.
Are there color setting available which control the setting for gray scale images to be printed Black/White?

Leo,
choose for default settings a joboption set which
contains for output
Settingsfile: None
Color Management: Leave Color Unchanged (!)
Results:
Source sRGB (color): PDF color 3x8 bits
OK
Source Grayscale: PDF gray 1x8 bits (Indexed)
OK
Source sRGB (gray) with R=G=B: PDF gray 1x8bits (Indexed)
Very wrong.
This is a well known bug in the Acrobat software:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b641a5
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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