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Originally Posted by Kent10D
What you're seeing on your display is backlit. The brightest parts of the image can be very bright indeed (in fact, they are actually glowing).
What you see on paper is reflective, and the whiteness and brightness of what you see depends on the paper the image is printed on.
These are fundamentally different modes of viewing, and although calibrating your monitor can help a lot, there will always be a difference. It seems that a little bit of mental adjustment is required.
Also try looking at your printed images under different types of light: sunlight, fluorescent, tungsten. You'll probably find that the image looks quite different under each, throwing a whole new economy-size monkey wrench (or spanner) into the works.
This is tricky stuff.
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Good advice and very well put. However, even with a regularly calibrated monitor and soft proofing using epson papers with the canned profiles, I always found my R1800 (which is more or less an A3 version of the R800) gave me significantly darker prints than expected. I usually just boosted the brightness a bit through a straightforward curves adjustment just prior to printing. I have recently upgraded to an Epson Pro 3800 and the Epson profiles for this printer are much, much better.