Epson L355 - Seriously dark images coming out!

[Tamar Photography]

I bought a new printer, one with independent ink tanks, i don't know why, nor can I find a solution anywhere online that will tell me why the print outs are a little bit darker than on my imac screen, Ive noticed this with printing landscapes, perhaps someone here could lend a hand.

Thanks

 

[Box Brownie]

I bought a new printer, one with independent ink tanks, i don't know why, nor can I find a solution anywhere online that will tell me why the print outs are a little bit darker than on my imac screen, Ive noticed this with printing landscapes, perhaps someone here could lend a hand.

Thanks

Not a Mac user but in general terms the following needs to be asked & answered.

A) have you calibrated your monitor
B) if so what brightness level have you got it set to?
C) do you softproof the image on screen (Photoshop or Light room?)

In other words until you have adjusted the screen it is entirely pot luck how the images will print and the commonest reason for "too dark" is that your screen is too bright!

 

[Chappers]

iMacs like most display are way too bright, straight out of the box. Ideally you should calibrate your display, to a level that matches your viewing environment. My calibrated iMac has it's brightness set to around 50% of maximum to achieve a good match. If you are using a calibration device it may be that it's setting the level too high . try reducing this by about 10 Cd/m2 and see if you get a better match. If you are not using a calibration device , try going into sys prefs, and under displays, lower the brightness there. The brightness controls on the keyboard I think are too crude to get a satisfactory setting

 

[droj]

This seems from many posts to be the commonest problem when printing out digitally by any method, home or lab. I think that the answer has been given many times, that the first thing is to adjust your display brightness. In the old days of CRT displays I don't remember that this was a problem. As John says above, try 50% as a start point. Brightness is one thing, and colour matching is another. One thing at a time, and see how it goes.

As an experiment, take one of the dark prints that you've produced, and adjust your display brightness so that the image on screen matches the tonality of the print. This may indicate a usable brightness setting.

 

[northerndarkness]

I calibrated my HP Envy 23 with a spyder4 for colour and usually set my display to 40% of its maximum brightness and process my photos in a darkened room. My problem swings the other way now, My images look great on my screen and on the printer, but when it comes to displaying them on a website they look too bright on everybodys screen that has them set to 100% from factory.