Click on the top right device icon (or alternatively click on the "Connect a device" bar at the bottom of the page).

Click on the "Connect" button.

Select "Search for a Nix device".

Your device should appear on a list (icons will indicate whether the device is available via USB or Bluetooth). Select your device from the list and click "Connect".

Your device is now connected. Click "ok" to close the window.

A red device icon indicates that calibration for your device is recommended. Click the icon.

Select "Calibrate" from the dropdown to begin.

Enter your calibration ID in the indicated field. Then click the "Calibrate" button.

After a few moments, a pop-up will indicate that calibration is complete.

The device icon will now appear normally.

Once you have your substrate and colors added to the color bar, you're ready to begin measuring. Select the target you'd like to start with (here we're going to start with the substrate). Place your Nix Spectrophotometer on the sample and click the "Click to measure button".

If the measurement passed your tolerances, it will automatically go to the next color on the color bar (here it automatically went to Cyan). Continue measuring your samples.

Here you can see Cyan passed the set tolerances from its green background indicator (for more details on the pass/fail icons and indicators, check out our tutorial on "Understanding pass/fail measurements"). Continue your measurements.

Our yellow measurement has not passed our set tolerances. Rather than automatically moving to the next color on the color bar, it has stopped to allow you to act accordingly. The red background indicates it has not passed, but the green arrow tells us that we can correct it by adjusting the density. The "Correction" widget on the right tells us that by changing the density to Y 1.01 we could achieve a Delta E of 2.17 (which would pass our tolerances). You can also click on the widget to view a predicted graph.

Here you can see our measurement (the plotted point above the Delta E line). The graph shows that by changing the density we can fall below the Delta E line. Once you've made your density adjustments, click on "Click to measure" to measure the color again.

You can now see that the Yellow has passed its set tolerances and the job has automatically moved on to measure Black. You can click on any color from the color bar for more details or to rescan at any time.

Let's take a look at the measurement results. (1) Starting with substrate, the green background indicates that the measurement passed its tolerance. (2) Cyan has a green background and green arrow. The green background indicates its passed its tolerance, but the green arrow indicates that you could reduce the Delta E further by adjusting the density. (3) For Magenta, the measurement has both passed its tolerances and the measurement is at (or near) its optimal density. (4) The red background for Yellow indicates it did not pass the set tolerances, and the red X informs us that changing the density won't be enough to correct it. Instead the ink itself will need to be changed. (5) For black, the red indicates it has not passed its tolerances, but we can make it pass if we change the density (as indicated by the green arrow).

After completing your measurements you can click the "pass/fail" button at the top right. An overall assessment of the job will appear, with the option to export to PDF.

Here we see an overall pass result.

Once you have your color bar set up with your desired colors, click the "Actions" button.

Under the "Save" column, click on "Save color bar template".

A window will pop-up asking you to name your template. When ready, hit "Save". You have successfully saved your color bar template.

Click on "Add to color bar" on the top left.

From the "Color bar" field, you should see a list of any templates you've added. Select the template you want to use from the list. You'll see a preview of the colors inside the template to the right. Click on the "Set color bar" button to add the colors to your color bar.

Your template will now appear in your color bar. You're ready to begin taking measurements.

Let’s start by adding your substrate and measuring colors to your color bar. Click on “Add to color bar” on the top right under the “Measure” tab.

Select the “Substrate” field and specify “Defined” or “Undefined”. Adding a substrate allows you to perform relative computations and density predications. Choosing the “Defined” setting will use the reference profile specified in your settings to determine the LAB values. Click the “Add to color bar” to add.

From the "Library color" field, select the library you'd like to add colors from. The library colors will display under "Color references". When you've selected the colors you want to add, click on "Add to color bar".

Your colors will now appear on the color bar to the left. Once you've added your colors you're ready to begin measuring.

From the "History" section, input your filter parameters (if any) and then click on "Search history with selected filters".

Nix Print Pro will display your most recent job. Use the arrow icons at the top left to view more jobs.

Clicking on the pass/fail button at the top right will show the overall results for the job. You can export the results to PDF by clicking "Save report".