My prints turned out dark.

[joffa]

That's a good idea I might fire up my lappy right now and see if the screen looks any different on that.

[Philr]

I have tried to calibrate to match but I can't get anywhere near the same result. I would be interested to see what you reckon.

[TOM]

are you using the same profile as your lab? that would be the first step.

[Lani]

Also check what gamma setting on your monitor you calibrate to (if it has that option), that turned out to be a problem for me, and ditto with checking the lab profile.

[joffa]

Well I just tried the laptop, the picture on the screen was still quite a bit brighter than the print even with the brightness down as low as it would go.

The colour space is set to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 as suggested on the digital works website. The colours are correct the prints just look a little under exposed.

[joffa]

The spyder software says the gamma is set to 2.2. Is that what you mean? I'm using vista and don't have the Adobe Gamma in my control panel, just a colour management option where i can select different colour profiles. I'm not quite sure what it all is so i've just left it alone.

[joffa]

Well I opened up the nvidia control panel and reduced the gamma to 0% and the screen appeared to match the print fairly closely as far as the 'darkness' was concerned, but then the spyder software corrected it back to where it was before...

[Lani]

No, you have to set it up in the monitor settings as well( using the buttons on your monitor), I'm not familiar with your monitor, so not sure how you do it, but our samsung has mode 1,2 and 3....by trial and error we worked out mode 3 equated to gamma 2.2.
first lot of prints did the same thing as you, fine on screen, just a bit too dark. So we set the monitor to the different gamma setting then calibrated to that...prints came back perfect.

Hope this helps, bit hard when you're using a different monitor though. Good luck with it.

[joffa]

Ok I think i understand what you mean, I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Cheers.