I have a design I'm trying to print on the 782 that has a shadow gradient. The problem is, the gradient is laying on top of part of the design that is black and part that is white. Now, the design as a whole prints nicer without printing black (using the shirt for black), but it ends up laying down white over the black part in order to print the gradient so it makes this horrible, out-of-place white shape. Besides printing with black ink, is there any other way to attain the gradient without the white being laid down over the black areas?
Highlight was set at 2. Anything less than that and the rest of the white (that's supposed to be there) didn't print well. I didn't adjust the mask at all.
I think I may know what's going on. Are you printing out of Illustrator? Is the art non flattened vector art? Do you have any spot colors under that shadow? If so, then what you may be seeing is a bug in illustrator when trying to print transparancies on top of spot colors. With gradients, drop shadows (transparancies) etc. that lay on top of pms colors you may get a box like shape on top of your art when you print. This is caused by illustrator not being able to translate transparencies on top of pms colors when sending the file to print. We see this at times when we print out of our Canon digital press and I've also seen it once on my flexi. I would suggest flattening the file and saving it as a hi-res tiff file then print. What this will do is convert all your colors to cmyk builds. See if that helps. I really doubt this is caused by any print settings as we've seen a few printed pieces on the forum that have colors interacting with gradients and drop shadows with no issue.
Thank you for your suggestions. However, the file started as vector artwork, then was placed into a high res photoshop document at actual size, then flattened and printed. What it's doing is laying down the white, because it's reading the transparency/gradient as color, which it is. But when the only other colors under the gradient is white and black, and I don't want to print with black. It ends up looking like this. Are there any tricks to printing gradients in a situation like this.
When you hit print, and your brother print box comes up, in the print preview area does it show the artwork as being interpreted correctly, or do you see it doing this even in the window as well?
Printing Gradients on top of black 
