have just taken over a small community mag. the printers have trouble with
publisher for various reasons but one of the biggest problems is the black,
especially  on pages with colour.
It takes them a lot of time to sort it out and I can't afford that.

I'm trying to use Publisher to create a 4x6 postcard that will be printed
full color front and back for a mass mailing.  Have found templates for the
front of the card but how do I set up the back side of the card?  Are they
done as two separate files (1 for front and 1 for back) ...

I use publisher to creat ads for the newspaper.  They have to totally
redesign the ads, using adobe, and they never look as good as my original.  I
want to send camera ready files to them.  They told me I would have to put it
in a pdf file?