Yes I have had the same from a printer but it is not as easy as that for the more spot colours the higher the cost. If you art work is a straight background and simple foreground colours maybe but I don't have the discipline to work that way and I cant afford the full range of Pantone colour swatch books, I have only one and its very basic. Many people use PS as the final colour correction myself I got a fair idea the difficult colours to use like red to purple and the changes are not that vast you have to think slightly brighter and of course use the template. If your print run is under 2000 SRA 3 sheets have you priced just using a comericial laser it can work out about the same and you dont have to worry about the plates or anything.