pantone / cmyk
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- Spookytim0
I'm not sure I understand your question James, so if this answer doesn't fit, then clearly I have misunderstood. You need to make all the colours process CMYK. There's little point in keeping the Pnatone name as the name of the colour - ie it wont help you any and it may cause a printer to think you want spots but have used CMYKs by mistake.
But for definite you shouldn't include spots in there. And also I'd check very carfully what kind of conversion you get in a pantone conversion book. Just becuase the spot colour you originally selected looks nice doesn't mean it will look anything like that when you convert the spot to a CMYK. Spot colours can have a luminance and vibrancy that isn't acheivable in CMYK so you could end up with some dirty muted tones if you're not careful.
My advice, pick process CMYKs from a process CMYK swatch book, never a spot colour swatch book.
Its around about here, after I've dropped my wisdom, that you need to come back and say "I know all that you stupid twat, I'm not a fucking idiot" and then I go away feeling bad about trying to help out.