I'm designing a flier using Photoshop which will be sent for printing later.

There are mainly 2 colors (black and orange) with toner (e.g. light orange to dark orange) on the flier. How can I make sure the color I select will fit into that criteria ... so that they'll only produce 2 boards for this printing? or is there a way for me to 'seperate' the color into 2, and 'mix' them back to see the outcome?

Note: I've confirmed with the printing service and they only need to produce 1 board for 1 color (it can be any color, no need 2 boards for red + yellow to produce orange) But, I need to know how I need to handle it.

Sorry for my poor explaination as I'm not pro in this. Thanks in advance.

This post has been edited by snow: Nov 19 2006, 12:12 AM

seriously...i dont understand whats ur meaning even though i read 2times

tose are call pantone color printing. or spot color printing

2 color. What i can inform u is that you need to check that your CMYK channel is all blank and do ur color creting 2 other channel. meaning tose in black you do it in a channel and tose in orange u do in a nother channel.

is quite a techincal problem.

go to ur channel click on the play botton beside it > create new spot channel. then select your color. and start doin your design. if you need any gradient like from orange - white. Go to the gradient tool and make sure is selected there black - white/oppasity 0.

remember is not a 4 color print so like what you said you are doin 2 color printing. you can onli get lower percentage or orange to get lighter orange color. and lower percentage of black to get grey color.

hope my post can help you. this is what i know for 2 color printing.
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