Brief 5 Getting gradient right for print

I was already aware the gradient may be ambitious especially for digital print.  I found a few posts with advice from professionals about getting it right so Ive been experimenting with different processes.

macrumors.com

There are mathematical formulas you can apply but you need to know your Printers

ekaprint.net/Creating%20Smooth%20Gradients.pdf

I initially tried adding the noise effects to the object in Indesign

The best advise seems to be to prepare the gradient in photoshop as they are less prone to banding than vector gradients.  I created a gradiant on one layer then applied two effect on a second white layer.  First applied monchromatic noise at 1.5%. 

I printed them off side by side and the best result was the photoshop one however there was still slight banding.

I then applied a Gaussian Blur to the Phtoshop one which produced a much smoother result when printed.  Obviously this is on my printer however the result from the original file to the final one on my printer is definitely smoother.