Pixma Pro 10s Dark prints

[Heres10p]

Hello I have a Pixma Pro 10S and the prints are dark

I have windows 10 and LR and PS 

I have set monitor to medium brightness and it is calibrated regularly, I d/loaded studio pro but it says it cannot find a suitable version of PS or LR

Any help would be great

Thanks

[jrhoffman75]

 Welcome to the forum Heres10P.

First, download this test image and print it using your photo software but not making any adjustmenst before printing?

http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi049/essay.html

Is the print too dark?

Additioanl info - what operating system are you using. Are you subscribed to the Adobe plan (i.e. latest versyions of LR and PS).

[Heres10p]

Thanks John will give that a go later

Using windows 10 and yes, subsribe to latest LR and PS CC

Thanks for the info and help

Paul

[Heres10p]

Hi John

Yes it is darker but not as much as mine are normally but still noticeably datker

Paul

[jrhoffman75]

Hi Paul. So its darker than your monitor, but when you view the print under your normal viewing conditions is the print acceptable on its own - i.e. don't compare it to the monitor.

A frequent statement is "my prints are too dark" but on further inspection the finding is that the monitor is too bright.

[Heres10p · Accepted solution]

Yes it looks ok on its own so thank you for your help, much appreciated

[jrhoffman75]

Glad to help. What you want to is reduce monitor brightness till the monitor and print are close in brightness. 

[AlphaGeeks]

Hi -- I know that your replies are a bit old but great. I am having a similar printing problem -- the prints on my Canon Pixman Pro-10 are darker than what appears on my monitor.

I went to the website http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi049/essay.html and printed out the printer evaluation print -- WOW -- printed great -- actually better than what I see on my screen -- ASUS VS248 -- of course I had followed other suggestions about darkening the screen quite a bit -- where I can hardly see it. lol.

The Canon Print Sudio Pro -- severely cropped my image -- I had a large image and was printing to Canon 5x7 paper.

I was using PS6 Windows 7 64bit Professional -- and also printed from a Smart Object.

So, I am still confused about -- getting accurate prints from the Pro-10 -- I am using an NVidia graphic card and had reduced the gamma to 2.2.

I appreciate any assistance.