Spot Color Separation

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K._Adrian
May 18, 2005
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A client supplied me with a two-color logo, black plus PMS 873b, in the form of a JPEG and a TIFF. Typically, we work with line art, which is very easy to spot color separate. When I place either the JPEG or TIFF in Illustrator or InDesign in order to design a business card and then print to color separations, CMYK separations are my only option. I tried creating a spot color channel in Photoshop but the channel quality was not sound. Is there an easier way to do this that I’m not aware of?

Thanks so much.
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Bob Levine
May 19, 2005
TIFF and JPG do not support spot colors so there’s your problem right there.

Bob
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LenHewitt
May 19, 2005

K.A.

To retain spot colour you will need to create a spot colour channel and paste the required content into that channel and then save as either PSD or EPS DCS2 for placement in InDesign or Illustrator
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Bob Levine
May 19, 2005
I would discourage the use of DCS files at this point. There’s simply no need. Use PSD or PDF.

Bob

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