spot colors on cd disc faces

[9.18]

the following is a email I recieve from a print company from whom will be printing some cds and covers for a client I am doing a design for. I never done a cd disc before so I need help if thats all possible

There are some issues with your artwork which will need to be corrected and resubmitted back to us before we can proceed. Below is a list of the errors.

1. Artwork is still in CMYK mode. Artwork needs to be set up in spot colors before we can proceed. I have attached a screenshot that shows that the artwork is still in CMYK mode. Please correct and resubmit; otherwise we can correct both disc faces in house (with the original native files used to create the artwork) for $112.50 (45 minutes of graphic design time per disc face).




I do I get the AI files in the corrent format for them?

[eric bobbitt]

Your document is using regular CMYK colors right now, but they need to be Spot colors (something like Pantone Colors). If you made this in illustrator, you need to reselect all your colors and change them to Pantone colors. You can load the pantone colors in your "swatches" display.

Hope you understand.
Good Luck

. . . I went back and found a pretty good link for you.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa060399.htm

read that.

[9.18]

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/7350/120mmprinttocenterking6zm.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2161/120mmprinttocent44erki7su.jpg

here are the images..the template they have and what u have said seems simple enough, but I have never done prints like these so I have no idea what to do on even how to select the appropriate colors. Thank you for your reply, and additional info is appreciated

[visualriddle]

nice link eric - that'll help me as I'm having to do a lot more of the pro printing stuff than I'm used to.

[qlazz]

I think, that you have to convert your job to multichannel mode (I mean Photoshop of course). Then you have to assign adequate spot colour to each channel. Do it in the channels's palette menu: Channel Options->Color->Custom...
But I don't know which exactly spot colour do you have to use: Pantone 287C, Fotoclone 1115 or Trumatch 45-a? The plate (single matrix) after separations looks like a black&white picture (it has or it hasn't fill) (it is visible in single channel in Channel's palette [Photoshop] ) - it means, that Mr. printer can lay every colour on this plate. So, when you have to do your job with two Pantones (e.g. some green and some orange) you can send to the printing-office separations with Cyan and Black. I don't understand why they asked you to convert this artwork to spot colours?
It is necessary to save that job (contains spot colours) as Photoshop DCS 2.0 format. (when you do all this job in Photoshop)
This is my point of view; maybe someone else has better solution to this problem. I have never done separated jobs with spot colours in Photoshop before...
By the way, nice job...

[Mizu]

PANTONE XXXC = Coated sheet

PANTONE XXXU = Uncoated sheet

theses 2 are mainly the ones you're gonna use in Print work. It all depends on the paper you will use. Gloss or matte ? Now, you have a CD. So i think Coated colors would be best.