We use the spyder studio kit in our office. Of course, I don't have to talk about monitor calibration.
Once your monitor is calibrated you have two options:
Trying with standard icc profiles from the paper manufacturers, or if you wish to have more sophisticated printer profiles like we do...
I want to try to explain it in short terms and resume for Harry:
Managed by printer: The printer uses it's own interpretation of colours. Normally this will result into bad quality. Even if the quality is good, the colors won't correspond with what you see on your screen. (Requirement is that...
I use a SpyderPrint myself and have no problems of having warm profiles.
Be sure you turn off the color management of your printer when printing out the measurement patches out of the SpyderPrint software. Furthermore, be sure to print correctly out of Photoshop...