  Additive manufacturing (AM) allows printing parts of complex geometries that
cannot be produced by standard technologies. Besides, AM provides the
possibility to create gradient materials with different structural and physical
properties. We, for the first time, printed gradient soft magnetic materials
from paramagnetic powders (316L steel and Cu-12Al-2Fe (in wt.%) aluminium
bronze)). The magnetic properties can be adjusted during the in-situ printing
process. The saturated magnetization value of alloys reaches 49 emu g^{-1}. The
changes in the magnetic properties have been attributed to the formation of the
BCC phase after mixing two FCC-dominated powders. Moreover, the phase
composition of the obtained gradient materials can be predicted with reasonable
accuracy by the CALPHAD approach, thus providing efficient optimization of the
performance. The obtained results provide new prospects for printing gradient
magnetic alloys.
