Gradient Text in Indesign error

Hello, I remember having issues with gradient text in the very first version of Indesign that had gradient text capability, I don't remember if it was CS2 or CS4, but it was about 6 years ago. I just had it happen again. It's frustrating to me, that after so many versions of Indesign that gradient text is still having trouble. It looks fine in indesign, and in the PDF that I send to the printer, however, when printed in the magazine, the shadow is on top of the gradient text.
I built this ad in Indesign CC. The HOLIDAY SPECIAL is a font that is changed to outlines, the gradient was inserted in that version. Then a copy was made and changed to black, for the drop shadow and moved behind it. This is all done in CMYK, saved as the ad document. Then the document was placed in another indesign document, which is the 18 page magazine. It is output to a pdf (which looks fine) and goes via FTP to a printer.  (It is a similar magazine, but I different printer than when I had the problem 6 years ago)
I looked thru my back issues and realized that it printed correctly 2 years ago. I went back into my archived files, to discover, that I had taken the line of text with the gradient and exported it as a PDF and then placed it in Indesign.
So I have my fix for the problem, but I'm still frustrated that Indesign has had the gradient text capability for so many years but it is still not reliable when it goes thru prepress for print. If someone from Adobe wishes to investigate this further, I can give you more details about my PDF settings which are recommended by the printer or any other info that might be helpful.
Thanks, Elaine

And, if there are other colors involved, like the green in your background (consisting of Cyan and Yellow), make sure, that all CMYK colors in your gradient fill have at least a 1% value to make that work.
In my example there are two bright colors building the gradient. They originally included Magenta and Yellow only. No Black. No Cyan.
If you set such a colored object to "Fill Overprint", every other object on the same spot beneath it will show through in the not used colors Cyan and Black.
So here another example with a Cyan background object where 1% Black is added (but not 1% Cyan!):
And here the same example with 1% Black AND 1% Cyan. As you can see, now all CMYK colors are involved in the gradient fill that is set to overprint. No chance for overprint to have an optical effect:
Uwe

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