Printing Separations True to Color on Paper

I have a dilemma - the pressman I am working with wants me to print out the color separations of a full color job as cyan, magenta, yellow and black. When I try all the tricks I know to print separations of the job it goes greyscale for that separation. How do I print just the cyan as cyan and not greyscale? He wants the whole image of the job, not just color bars.
The printer I am working with is imagistics cm4520 (printer/copier combo) and the job was layed out using InDesign CS2.
If someone can help me that would be awesome! Thank you!

I'm with Bob, if this is really what the printer wants he must be crazy. Are you sure you he really wants the seperations to be in colour not grey?
One way you can do what your after, is to make a seperated PDF, then open each seperation in Photoshop (make sure anti-aliasing is off, and the dpi is high enough), turn them into a monotone for that process colour. Save back out as a pdf. This is a pretty undesirable method though and you should probably find a new printer if possible.

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