2-Color Image

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Nitestarz
Jun 23, 2006
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OK, first let me start of my saying I am a Web Designer who is starting to dabble in print design. I have done 4-color small brochures before.

I am now doing a 2-color(big pain!!). My printer is telling me this image is still 4 color. Here is the link to it (it is
zipped):www.jodynelson.com/CONCLUSION.zip

Here are the steps that I used to make Duotone:
1. Convert image to Greyscale
2. Convert to Duotone (PANTONE 654 C)
3. Save as EPS

What did I do wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Tacit
Jun 23, 2006
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"Nitestarz" wrote:

OK, first let me start of my saying I am a Web Designer who is starting to dabble in print design. I have done 4-color small brochures before.
I am now doing a 2-color(big pain!!). My printer is telling me this image is still 4 color. Here is the link to it (it is
zipped):www.jodynelson.com/CONCLUSION.zip

Here are the steps that I used to make Duotone:
1. Convert image to Greyscale
2. Convert to Duotone (PANTONE 654 C)
3. Save as EPS

What did I do wrong?

Your printer is incorrect. This is a one-color (Pantone 654) image. It emphatically IS NOT four-color.

However, you should not set type in Photoshop. You should make the background (hand with dry erase marker) image in Photoshop, then set your type in your page layout program. When you set your type in Photoshop and saved the file as an EPS, this turned the type into pixels. It will not print as smoothly as it would if you used an illustration or page layout program to set your type.

Photoshop is an image editing program, not a page layout program.


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RicSeyler
Jun 23, 2006
Spot color design & separating is a much much bigger bitch than process…

Nitestarz wrote:

OK, first let me start of my saying I am a Web Designer who is starting to dabble in print design. I have done 4-color small brochures before.
I am now doing a 2-color(big pain!!). My printer is telling me this image is still 4 color. Here is the link to it (it is
zipped):www.jodynelson.com/CONCLUSION.zip

Here are the steps that I used to make Duotone:
1. Convert image to Greyscale
2. Convert to Duotone (PANTONE 654 C)
3. Save as EPS

What did I do wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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