Spot Color for Print Problem???

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Don Boring
Apr 6, 2005
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I have a newspaper ready to go to the
printers in a PDF file but the printer says
that the Logo is in CMYK and should be
in MONOTONE SPOT COLOR.

Specifically Pantone 354-U at 100%

How the hell do I save it as a PANTONE 354-U
monotone spot color in Photoshop 7.0???

That is the only problem with the file and I don’t
want THEM to fix it, I want to learn something here.

Help!

Don Boring
Glendora, CA. USA
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Tacit
Apr 6, 2005
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Don Boring wrote:

I have a newspaper ready to go to the
printers in a PDF file but the printer says
that the Logo is in CMYK and should be
in MONOTONE SPOT COLOR.

Sounds like you’ve already started walking down the wrong path. Do not use Photoshop as a page layout or logo tool; an ad that is intended for print on press should not be done in Photoshop.

Instead, you use Photoshop to create the images, you use a vector program like Illustrator to create the logos, and you assemble the ad and set your type in a page-layout program such as QuarkXPress or InDesign.

Specifically Pantone 354-U at 100%

How the hell do I save it as a PANTONE 354-U
monotone spot color in Photoshop 7.0???

First, you go to the Channels palette and select "New Spot Channel" from the flyout menu.

Then, you place anything that you want to print in that spot color in the spot channel.

Note that you cannot work in layers and you cannot work with vector shapes in spot channels. This means, among other things, the logo will not print as smoothly as it would have if you had created it in a vector program and laid the ad out in a page layout program.

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Eric Gill
Apr 6, 2005
Don Boring wrote in
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I have a newspaper ready to go to the
printers in a PDF file but the printer says
that the Logo is in CMYK and should be
in MONOTONE SPOT COLOR.

Specifically Pantone 354-U at 100%

Why 100%? Their print process not allow for screens?

How the hell do I save it as a PANTONE 354-U
monotone spot color in Photoshop 7.0???

Depends. (See below).

That is the only problem with the file and I don’t
want THEM to fix it, I want to learn something here.

Okay.

First, tell us why the logo came out of Photoshop. Are you scanning lineart or what?

Help!

Can you post a web-sized version somewhere so we can take a look at it and make some suggestions?

The easiest way to make an image into a spot is to save it as bitmap or grayscale tiff, place it in your page layout app, and colorize it with the Spot you want.

This will be impossible if it is screened and they won’t accept screens.

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