Need a to smooth out gradiant fade

[Mr. T]

I am making a fade in Flexi from deep purple to orange. I filled the left icon with purple and the right one with orange and I am getting some vertical bands, or gradations. I am looking for a way to get a smoother transition. I am printing with a Mutoh ValuJet.
Any help would be apprieciated.
Tracy

 

[signage]

Do a search, use a blur

 

[Steve C.]

Try adding some medium tones in between. I get the same thing going from
red to black, so I add brown or maroon to the middle.

Also might try playing with your heat settings, My Falcon is bad about banding
in gradiants. I can usually eliminate the problem with the heat controls.
Of course, when you do that, the durability of the print may suffer.

 

[Drip Dry]

I usually rasterize the gradients( just the gradient, not the entire image) in flexi first before sending to the rip. It prints a much better gradient without the banding.

 

[dbenec]

rasterize gradient and add as small amount of noise as possible (photoshop filter). if you have a non-printing area you can brush the noise back out in the 'paper' areas.

 

[D&Tgraphics]

Sorry I missed your call about this issue yesterday Tracy. I agree with the others about rasterizing the gradient.

 

[Mr. T]

fade

Thanks to those who responded. I tried everthing in Flexi with no good results. Dennis form D&T added some noise in Photo Shop and that did the trick. I don't have Photo Shop yet.. It will be here soooon!
Thanx again,
Tracy

 

[signage]

If you don't want to spend a fortune on a program to just do thing like this look into Corel, it can do the same.

 

[SignsOfMaine]

Also, when you rasterize the gradient and open it in photoshop, the gaussian blur filter can smooth things out quite a bit before adding noise.