●Horizontal bands.

●Coalescence, grain (can be caused by an excess of light ink).

Try reducing the amount of ink in your RIP software, then reprint the chart and check again.

You may have chosen a media preset that uses more ink than your substrate allows. Consult your RIP documentation to make sure you’re applying the right media preset, and to find out how to lower the total ink limits of the media preset. For a quick solution, you could change to a different media preset that uses less ink: for example, paper-aqueous presets use less ink than self-adhesive presets.

2.Correct amount of ink: The top level of each patch shows a smooth gradient, there are no visible defects and increasing amounts of ink result in increasing color density.

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