Prints not coming out close enough to whats on screen

[Deleted member 11105]

Hi, I had a photo printed at jessops recently but the print that i recieved didn't look like what I had seen on my screen. I took the photos in RAW and exposed them pretty well. The images i am seeing on screen are pretty much what i was expecting really, not too bright or dark and colour pretty good so I don't think the colour of my monitor is too bad. But the print i had done came out far too dark!! One variable I think might be to blame is the convertion option of my colour settings in photoshop, it was 'relative colormetric' and i think perhaps it should have been 'perceptual'. could this be to blame? does this conversion option get embedded in my jpegs and then used by the jessops printers when converting the image to their colour space? Otherwise are there any other reasons why my print came out dark or is it likely to be my monitor configuration? Ps. when i took the image to jessops they loaded it straight onto their printing computer so as to bypass the upload terminals and any auto correction they do.

thanks,
Duncan

 

[AliB]

Duncan, PC monitors are notorious for being too bright hence a lot of people end up with rather dark prints.

I calibrated my monitor and I know my colours are spot on but I used to get darker prints and for a while I simply did a test print and adjusted from there, eventually I learned to go into the monitor menu and turn the brightness down. I had to turn it down nearly 20% in the end but, that's one very possible culprit.