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When printing a blend of fill colors, eg: red to orange to yellow...that have been set up in programs like corel or illustrator, how do you achieve a perfect transition of color without sometimes seeing a banding effect. Areas that might have a dark streak down through them. I'm seeing problems with this off of the ink jet vinyl printers on larger fill patterns and wondering how to correct it.
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increase the number of steps in the gradient fill dialog.
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My current method of getting a good clean gradient for printing out of either Illustrator or Corel is to build is to create it in Photoshop. By that I mean take whatever shape it is you want the gradient to fill, slightly enlarge the shape, take it into PS and create the gradient to fill it and then place and mask it back into Ill/Corel.
PS gives you much better contol over the gradient and eliminates the banding caused in the other programs, especially at large sizes. We do this for both digital printing and 4 color process printing.
Hope this helps, Mark
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Just opening an Illustrator file in Photoshop rasterizes it. Save the resulting file in your preferred format (ours is tif) and open on your rip.
It'll print far better than an Illustrator gradient.
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I was going to suggest the same thing as the others. I import them into photoshop and use the blur tool to smooth the gradient. Then export it back into corel.
Good luck, Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Printers only swipe in one direction and the banding shows it. If you can, try turning the output 90 degrees. With the print heads going "against the grain", it tends to hide the banding a little better.
Hope this helps... Rapid
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