eps montone placed in Illustrator

[puredesign]

Hi! I'm a graphic artist - this is my issue:

I placed an eps montone pantone spot color image in Illustrator CS, and Illustrator asked me wether I wanted to use the documents original color or to use Illustrator's swatch color, so I chose Illustrator color. The file did display any new aditional name, and the monotone eps file had the exact same name in my psd file. The printer was not able to create the separations. The eps images were embeded, as opposed to linked, and apparently they got it to work by re-linking the files and having them only linked - which left me puzzled. Anyone can help me decifer what happened, so I may not have this problem again??

[almaink]

Once you embed an imported spot color image into Illy it becomes either RGB or CMYK depending on the color mode you are working in. To keep it a spot include it along with the eps file and check the link box when you place and save the eps.

[puredesign]

Thank you so much for your response, I appreciate it!!