Converting RGB to 2 spot color for printing.

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Steven_Heyden
Jan 23, 2007
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I have a business card that was created in RGB. The printer uses a spot color process with black and Orange. How can I convert this into a spot color document? Is this best done with Illustrator?

Thanks,

Steve
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Buko
Jan 23, 2007
Is the RGB file in 2 colors?

Orange and Black?
SF
Scott_Falkner
Jan 23, 2007
If you can faithfully reproduce the artwork in Illustrator, I suggest yo do it there.

Another trick is to duplicate the layer and on each, delete the other colour. Adjust colours on each layer so everything is black (instead of a black layer and an orange layer, two black layers). Convert to grayscale (do not flatten). Show only one layer, flatten, save as TIFF with the colour in the filename. Undo and repeat for the other colour. Place both TIFFs in InDesign (if you have it) in the same position and colour the orange one with your spot orange.

This is the old school method, and I’m still more comfortable with it than using Photoshop’s spot channels.

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