do you actually mean medium copies or close copies - the demo in the cribbage squares looks like it's 4 copies next to each other, e.g. P0 and P1 both set to two close.
If you only want red and black, it is better to set the P0 and P1 to background colour and draw inverted sprites over BG and PF with e.g. BG set to red and PF to black - I hope that makes sense....