Yea, the Spyder has this 'thing' attached with a suction cup to your monitor. As you go through the program, it reads and records stuff, then talks to your printer to make it work right. LOL As you can tell I'm one of those technical sort of folks! Truthfully, I'm not sure what all it does or exactly how it works but alot of photogs who print their own prints have given it high reviews. Whatever I do, I can't print anything with what I've got now. Be glad you lucked out!