I feel like a right silly sausage.

Unlike the plus and pro versions, the Spyder2Express I have doesn’t come with the Printfix software.  But bizarrely if you download Printfix Pro from the colorvision sitette you can run it in demo mode.  I thought to myself whilst trying it out ‘wow, this demo mode is letting me do everything!’, I even plugged my spyder in and hit return with the device centred in on a colour patch and it worked!

Only it was fooling me.  It was only after going through the patch charts for hours that I realised that whatever surface the sensor was on, hitting return resulted in an approximate colour to the one desired anyway.  It was doing sod all!

I’m so dumb!