Printing In 2 Colours

Hi Guys,

Need some guidance + advice. I have a document designed in photoshop and I've imported this into Indesign to add some text. The document is made up of orange and grey (2 different variations). How do I set this up for the printers to only print 2 colours as the printer (not very helpfully) said I have set it up as 4?

Is this a long job?

thanks in advance.

Steve
 
Sounds to me like your orange and grey are made up of CMYK.

You'll need to create your document using Spot colours.
 
Okay - I presume thats easy enough to do. Does that mean they can only be 1 type of orange and one type of grey? as I've currently got drop shadows as its a form - which would be a varation of the grey?

thanks :)
 
How is this being printed? Why two colour? Sounds like it would be more suited to process.

You can use one Spot with various tints. For example, this would be a single colour:

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Your best bet would be to find the Pantone that's closets to the colours you've used and work with them. Are you familiar with Channels in Photoshop?
 

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I think the agency I'm designing it for want to keep the print costs down. But they've only just mentioned this!

I'm not sure how to setup a photoshop document with two spot colours?

thanks again!
 
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