I recently bought an Epson R230 and printed some pictures on HP photo paper. However, the photographs are significantly darker than what I see on the computer screen. I am not the kind of person who can perceive small difference, so when I say dark.. it's pretty bad. I have an LCD monitor for my computer of some brand called CMV.
I tried the following: went to view in Photoshop and enabled Proof colors and in proof setup, I chose the custom and selected R230 in the list. Still the photo I see on the monitor is significantly brighter than the print. Is there anything else I can do about this? I don't think I have told Photoshop in anyway what monitor I am using. One thought would be to play with the brightness (and contrast/RGB??) of the monitor till it matches what I got as prints. Is there any standard way to do this? software/charts etc? Maybe I should print a standard chart and compare it to what's on the screen and play with monitor settings?
I just spent a bit on the printer and am not too keen on wasting too much paper and ink on experiments I think up myself. Also would changing paper have a significant impact... I read that the profile might assumes Epson paper as well.
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