Color settings in Photoshop for print production

Does anyone have experience and/or knowledge about the color settings in Photoshop?
We have business cards that will be printed using offset printing (4 color printing) and Spot printing (Pantone), and need guidance in configuring the settings.
Please help!

Oh, but by the way, Photoshop is an odd choice for business cards and a troublesome one for spot colour. Illustrator or InDesign perhaps.

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> Marco ... I read your post on rGB / CMYK conversion
Which one was that, if you could remind me?
>I work through a print broker that prints CMYK and the only thing he can tell me is that they print CMYK and on sheet fed coated.
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One of the problems that came in with digital was the concept that "we" can fix anything in post. White balance? Why bother ... simple adjustment in Photoshop! And this was something that was a nightmare when the only options in-cam were 8-bit Jpeg or Tiff files. So ... RAW got into the cameras and Lightroom and you could easily tweak entire batches in Lr ... again, why worry about WB in-cam?
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Now ... take someone who thinks of usable color as an annoyance in shooting so it's a "fix in post" thing for ... something "acceptable" ... shall we say? Give them a DSLR that takes video, and voila ... we fix that in post also, right?
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