CMYK plus a special ink

I am looking to produce a print job in Five colours, CMYK plus a pantone colour. Is there a way to get Photoshop to generate or support a 5 colour file. an extra channel isn't regonized as an extra colour by quark express. Any ideas are welcome. At the moment the current answer is two tiffs over the top of each other with the upper set to over print, but this is a little clumsy!
help!

Chris

I dont know if this is the best way to do it, but you can create a second version identical to the first, isolate the color you need for the 5th one, make that a 100% of one color (like Magenta) and the rest 100% (like black) of another, then that would make 2 films. The printers can just discard the one you dont need and output only that extra one. If the 2 images are identical they should fall on top of each other no problem in the layout.

Oh I forgot to mention you can just give them the Pantone color for that 5th film.

...this really won't help you, but I am feeling synical in nature this morning...Get InDesign ;-)

-j

Double-Click your extra channel in the Channels Palette, and designate it as a Spot Color channel. When you save, choose "Photoshop DCS 2.0" in the drop down menu. Make sure that "Spot Colors" is checked.

Beyond that, I can't help much because you haven't provided enough info about your workflow and the workflow of the company doing the printing.

It sounds like you have quite a bit of studying to do before you can manage this process. There are a lot of things you need to keep a handle on and you'd be best served by buying some books — it's too broad and deep a subject to successfully tackle in this forum.

You might want to start at This page of google results, returned from the search string: Photoshop, spot colors, "DCS Files".

Do what Utopian said...but in addition....NAME your spot color in Photoshop THE EXACT SAME NAME as the Pantone color is called in Quark.

...then proceed to save as DCS 2.0, and Quark should see the extra channel correctly.

Excellent, that really helped Utopian23!

many thanks!

Chris