HELP! Edge Process Printing Tricks......With FlexiSignPRO

[CrAkD]

Hey guys.....I may have bit off more than I can chew here. I have an order for 2500 5.5"x4" 4 color sticker sheets. The colors are red green black and grey.....I didn't have process black at the time I took the order so I did a 3 color sample of Spot Red Spot Green and Spot Black. Now that I have all the process ribbons I need its coming out all grainy and not living up to the samples. I can fix the black by setting most of the black elements to SPOT but since I need to make grey it will use DOUBLE the black ribbon and across 2500 stickers thats going to run me atleast $150 more then I planned to spend on supplies and on top of that the green red and grey still look very grainy. I have the gradient smoothness set to super but that hasn't helped any....any settings I can tweak in flex to smooth this process printing out? heres a sample of the sticker sheet printed in process very scratchy looking.

 

[Drip Dry]

Why are you printing process ? Is it because your trying to make the grey ? Why not just use spot grey.
I never had much success with printing process. I never tried using Flexi to the Gerber, so I can't help you there.

 

[Browner]

I'll echo the question of why you're printing those as process? If you don't want to use a spot grey foil, set the grey to be 50% (or whatever) spot black.

I don't use Flexi, so maybe it's different, but if it's set up properly the black foil should only go through once. Example attached.

 

[CrAkD]

thanks for the replies guys....Well he asked for 4 colors and I already had 2 full sets of process and I didn't have enough red and green and had no grey foils. so I figured process would be cheaper on supplies. After I clear out these process ribbons I am probably done with process. So much easier just getting the spot color needed. I talked him into dropping the grey so I ran the black as spot and processed the red and green somehow messing with the settings I got the red and green to look good. almost 600 out of 2500 printed so far.

 

[signage]

With the Edge their are time to print with process and not to! This job would have been better off printing with Spot!