Trouble printing a gradient in Illustrator CS3

Hi Guys,
I'm having trouble printing a gradient via color seperation on a ecrm MAKO 36 image setter...
I've uploaded a file. The top light blue border(gradient) will not print. If I take the gradient off it will seperate with no problems.
I've tried using the compatible gradient & mesh printer settings but it doesn't make any difference.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Curtis

I looked at the file and found strange things about it. It has two groups of object that only have one object or path in the group and in each case the object has clipping path that does absolutely nothing I would eliminate the clipping by selecting them in the layers panel and deleting using the trash can in the layers panel.
I would select all the art and in the attributes panel I would make the overprint options for both Fills and strokes set as uncheck, which is what I thin is causing the problem as there is no reason for an overprint.

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