Monitor Calibration - Spyder2Suite?

[Bluefusion]

We would like to calibrate our monitors as best as possible so that what we see onscreen will match printed pantone and CMYK artwork.

I am currently looking at the 'Spyder2 Suite'. Does anyone have any experience of this or other such software that they can advise on?

Thanks
J

[panzer]

DO NOT double post print driver and morea are going to tell you off

ner ner nah ner ner

[orkaknos12]

Do it by hand unless you're a large scale print shop calibrating 8 or more monitors at once. You'll get much more sensible results by manually setting up your monitors based on a print proof. Spyders and Hueys do an okay Job.. I'm usually not all that impressed working with the monitor afterward, though.
Set your monitor to 6500K
Run adobe gamma in the control panel and follow the wizard. Once you make sense of how it works, you'll fly through it. I can have monitors set up and running before I even figure out where I left my spyder ;) LCD monitors will be a total bitch to get right unless they're very high quality - if you're running LCD's the spyder is a very good tool, just make sure you have it at the viewing angle you want.

-Jon