If an image looks good on an overly bright monitor, it will print too dark on a properly calibrated printer. But if you edit your photos on a monitor that is too bright, your prints will end up too dark. So year by year, monitor manufacturers work on perfecting brighter monitors. Monitor manufacturers do this on purpose since they know most people will assume the brightest monitor in the store is the best. Newer monitors are inherently too bright.
After all, their monitor can't be the problem since it's the prints that are too dark. Given this, most people assume they aren't using that profile correctly. So it's hard to blame the problem of your prints being too dark on your printer profile. Either they came with the printer or you can probably download them from the manufacturer's website - so long as you use paper and ink from that same printer manufacturer. If you stick with mainstream inkjet printers designed for printing photographs, it's pretty easy these days to get good profiles. And that means using the right profiles for your printer and your monitor. Many photographers at least try to implement color management.
Some years ago this concept would make most photographers run for cover, but the acceptance of color management has improved over time. The only real way to be serious about printing your own work involves learning about and making use of color management. That is to say, not every image is the same nor is what is needed to correct their colors to print acceptably. And printers need more help with "problem" colors than with those that match more closely to what their inks can easily reproduce. Images that start out being primarily different colors will need different tweaks. But beyond that, you have to perform this paper and time wasting ritual for every image since these crude adjustments tend to affect the image as a whole. For one thing, they aren't calibrated to any real reference standard so you have to adjust them buy trial and error, by printing out a test image and deciding whether you like the result or not. But fiddling with these can be an exercise in frustration. But it's also becoming more common to hear complaints from those trying to do so that their prints come out too dark.Įvery printer driver comes with an array of sliders and controls to adjust tint, brightness and the like.
It's becoming more common for photographers to get serious about printing their own work.
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