Dark Prints on HP Photosmart

[obadvw]

i have Canon 40D and i took some nice landscape photos during morning, when i printed them on my HP photosmart D7163 Printer they show up darker than what i saw on the screen, i thought it might be screen calibration issue, i checked image histogram in camera and looks fine and they show very nice on camera LCD but they prints Darker, tried everything with color profiles but no use..
i print using photoshop CS2
even tried to print directly from camera to printer using pictbridge with same results

can anyone help?

how can i check my prints on screen before printing them?

[Gonzo13]

I brighten my pictures about 20 percent in PS before I print them. It helps.

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by obadvw

i have Canon 40D and i took some nice landscape photos during morning, when i printed them on my HP photosmart D7163 Printer they show up darker than what i saw on the screen, i thought it might be screen calibration issue, i checked image histogram in camera and looks fine and they show very nice on camera LCD but they prints Darker, tried everything with color profiles but no use..
i print using photoshop CS2
even tried to print directly from camera to printer using pictbridge with same results

can anyone help?

Possibly a Color Management issue (printer and/or monitor and not your camera LCD) and your printer and/or monitor may need a calibration. Check out the following and print a test image out (e.g., http://www.digitaldog.net/files/Prin...20file.jpg.zip) to see how accurate is your HP printer.

Printer Calibration - Calibrate Your Printer and Get the Color You Want
Monitor calibration and gamma

[Gonzo13]

I can't recall where but I read an article about this same thing not to long ago. I did a quick search through my magazines and I have yet to be able to locate the article. If I find it I'll make another post about it. Basically it said that LCD monitors are brighter than CRT monitors and that printers were not reading which monitor you were using. So the bright image on the LCD would be dark on a CRT and a print. I was brightening my images before I read the article but now I know the reasoning behind it.