Setting up for commercial printing

I use Illustrator as my layout program for cards, which include text and photos.
I need to set up a job with a "clear foil" for printing. My contact's email says:
"will be printed on matt paper and then add clear foil to the photo area" "we ask that you provide the clear foil as a layered file"
This job has a very tight deadline and no time to discuss with the printer ahead of time.
Can someone help and explain how this needs to be set up?

It sounds like you're talking about the project being foil-stamped using a clear foil. If so, the printer simply needs to be able to print a solid image in the shape of the foil stamp.
That is customarily accomplished by using a spot color to fill the paths which will define the shape of the foil stamp. For example, you can simply define a Spot Color Swatch named "ClearFoil", draw the shapes that will be foil stamped, apply that Swatch to those objects, and set their fills to overprint.
Although it is a commonly-used organizational convenience to put those object(s) on a separate layer, it is not strictly necessary to do so. (This seems to be a recurring misconception in this forum lately that Layers are somehow linked to color separation.) What matters is which objects print to individual color separations (inks). That has nothing to do with which Layers those objects are on.
But in the case of things like foil stamps, varnishes, or die-cuts, it is usually sensible and convenient to put those objects on their own named Layer. (For example, name the Layer "Foil Stamp".) That's just a clear way to communicate the purpose, and it also makes it easy for the recipient to just turn on/off visibility of that layer when viewing the underlying artwork.
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Hi there,
We're a board game publisher about to send our first game to an overseas manufacturer. The game is composed of hundreds of cards with detailed, fantasy art, and we're excited to get this game finally out the door.
We sent the raw, packaged indesign (CS6) files to a local printer to see how everything would look before we have 3,000 copies of the game made overseas. The local printer used the same process that the overseas printer will, a 4 color high-end printer that is certainly impressive to people new to the industry such as ourselves. The sample cards they printed came out with fantastic clarity, but the colors are very muted. It's not a subtle change in color like I might see when toggling RGB to CMYK in photoshop for example. Instead, the colors on the print out look like someone slid a color saturation slider on the entire indesign file down by 25%.
When we print on our low-end inket at the office, the resolution is obviously poor, but the colors look great and match our calibrated monitors. When we export to PDF using "Press Quality", everything looks perfect on multiple computers here and at other locations away from the office. It's only the most important step, printing on a full-blown, commercial printer that the colors look so muted.
Here are some crude photos I took on my phone to help show the difference.
These photos have our office, inkjet printer cards are more colorful and the high-quality commercial printer cards are muted (sorry for the strange alignment, this forum is rotating the images for some reason):
http://www.watchtowergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-1.jpg
http://www.watchtowergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-2.jpg
http://www.watchtowergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-3.jpg
Different cards here:
http://www.watchtowergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-1b.jpg
http://www.watchtowergames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/photo-2b.jpg
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The local printer has offered to provide a color correction service for us, but at $100 an hour, that sounds like a lot for a new business like ours.
Is there some setting inside indesign that we are missing? Is there a way to replicate the muted colors on our end so we can at least troubleshoot this? Is there a method to turn up the saturation, if you will, for 4 color printing? Should we bite the bullet and pay the local printer an arm and a leg to color correct this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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P.S. Also, if it helps, when we had the local printer digitally print a sample, everything looked far too dark, which they said was a side effect of the digital print process.

Thanks for the response, Rob.
We talked with a local printer as they assured us that their setup was the same standard that the overseas printer uses. They said the sample sheet they printed for us had marks on the edges. Supposedly, once we had everything matching up right with the local printer, we could mail the printed sheet here to the overseas printer and their system would put in the sheet with its colors on the edges and know exactly what we wanted. Heck, if I know. I'm picking this up as I go along.
By your post, it sounds like we have introduced an unnecessary variable (this local printer) and should just cut them out of the process and deal directly with the overseas printer. The challenge is that the next step is for them to make a sample game for us, and at $1,000 a sample game, it's going to get crazy expensive if we have to go through several samples. I'll see if they can just run a single sheet of cards as a test run like you suggested.
If the overseas printer sheet or sample game comes up with the muted color problem still, what steps happen next. I ask because I'm used to solving the issues and don't understand how to solve this one if it comes up again. Do I just tell them to "make it more vibrant" and they work their magic as professional printers, or is the expectation that I'm to go through each of our many illustrations and graphic designs and over-saturate them myself? I suppose we can cross that bridge when we get to it. It's just hard to work for 18 months on this game getting everything just right and now see this color issue that is out my hands that I cannot solve.
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Hi @EI2014 ,
Make sure Safari is set as the default browser. Sometimes the Embedded Web Server won't open in other browsers.
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When trying to set up my printer I get a box that says "Printers Code", is the "printer code" another word for hardware address or is it the access point hw address or what is it? I wish the HP people would stick to the same nomenclature in their set up!

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