Composite PDF woes

[jspenc2]

Hey guys,
I've always been a Photoshop guy, but never had to professionally PRINT any of my work until now. It's a whole different world and I'm totally lost. I'm hoping someone can help me:

I've designed a 2-color invitation, in CMYK, in Photoshop that my printer wants as a composite PDF with spot colors. If I just save a PDF, it won't be spot colors, it will be a CMYK PDF, am I right? So how do I give him the spot colors in the PDF?

I know this is probably retarded. Thanks in advance for your help.


James

[Verdant]

When you created the two color invite, did you create new channels for each of those colors, or did you just use only two colors in your layers?

[jspenc2]

I used only two colors in the document. I didn't touch channels during the design.

[mattbeals]

Send me the PhotoShop document so I can see what's going on. It may be a bit of a mess to fix...

[jspenc2]

Matt,
I've been working on this since posting and now I think I may have a composite PDF made. Would you mind if I pm'ed you the link to the PDF and you could maybe tell me if this is a working composite PDF?

[mattbeals]

best to just email it right to me.

[jspenc2]

It's 30mb.... not sure if it will go through. I guess I could email you the back of the invite, which is only like 2mb. What's your email?

[mattbeals]

Send it via YouSend It!, but in the mean time send me the back of the document to my email address.

[jspenc2]

I just sent you an e-mail with a direct link through the 'send e-mail' option on here. Let me know if it didn't go through...thanks again.

[mattbeals]

You're on the right track. What may make your printer "more comfortable" is to put the dark color in the black channel and the other in the magenta channel and just send magenta/black.