Hi. No, no suction cups, but the cord has a counterweight you drape over the back so it will lay flat on the monitor, which it did. I also made sure with my finger.

The big problem was not the brightness, which I am already more or less used to. The issue is the color, and the insane adjustment I had to make manually. When the calibration was done, it presented you with 16 pictures, each of which presents a particular challenge to the monitor's settings, and you are invited to "Spyder-tune" the color manually.

In any event, I found it startling that I had to wedge the RED slider all the way to red, and the PURPLE slider all the way to purple in order to get rid of some pretty powerful greenish tinge. I was not sure if "tuning" it so dramatically will defeat the purpose of the calibration, or if it will compensate for your adjustments when you export for print. And if it is still not looking ideal after all that, will this prevent me from adjusting photos properly?