Control Strip Reading

Control Strips are processed twice a week (Tuesday & Thursday) for the Frontier printers. Once a week for the Chromira printer.

Process for reading:

• Turn on X-Rite color checker machine at least 5 minutes prior to taking control strip readings
• Open Oasis program on the desktop of the computer
• Click the READ button for the corresponding printer labeled on the control strip
• Take reading in the order displayed on OASIS (typically the order is: D-MAX, HD, LD, STAIN, Y-MAX)
• After the reading is taken click FILE, then SHOW GRAPH
• The Frontier printers will be off by 0.6 or 0.9, this is OK
• Repeat the process for each control strip
• Take all of the labelled control strips to the back and discard ones older than 30 days

To check/reactivate the dongle:

• Go to the “System” pull down menu and select “Authorize”
• When prompted for a password enter “pro” and press the enter key twice.
• Sometimes the password has been changed to “no password” – Just press the enter key twice.
• Select the “Evaluation Periods” tab (see screenshot below)
• Check the expiration date
• Enter the Authorization Key in the “Enter Authorization Number” field and click “Authorize”
• Expiration Date should extend by 365 days.