Suggestions and/or experiences printing black and white (b&w) books

I'm interested in printing a photo book exclusively with b&w images. Have seen some comments about the printed images having a color cast - sometimes blue, othertimes magenta.
Has anyone's turned out okay recently? I am a fine art photographer and my goal is to give it to professionals in the field. Is it worth it since ?
If anyone's has turned out okay, any suggestions for preparing the files? I've read that sRGB is best for Apple books. (greyscale->sRGB?)
I have Aperture 1.5.6 and iphoto 6 - although doubt that would impact the printed image.
Thanks for sharing any info, advice, warnings.

This thread had a similar problem:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23615076?ac_cid=tw123456#23615076
And there were possible solutions here:
This thread may help:
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/inkjet/71278
The Gutenprint drivers may also help:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php
There is support for the 990C, and that driver may work.
Hope this helps.

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I've encountered the same problem, and am trying to solve it also. Perhaps I can find a profile for true black and white. Or create one? For instance, as I mentioned above, Preview has a filter for black and white, (but only to save a pdf file) and if you then save the pdf file as a TIF via that black & white filter and then load the resulting image into a program that's actually capable of black and white, you will find that the file it created is actually RGB gray (24-bit) - it LOOKS gray but it's not. Whereas if you load a true black and white image into Preview (Preview unfortunately has no means of creating true black and white, nor even to convert back to color) then you will discover that now you have the option to save as 1-bit or 8-bit gray (1-bit being true black and white with no shades of gray and 8-bit being grayscale with 256 shades of gray i.e. 0 to 255).
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