Printer Output Problem

[alansmyth Profile]

When I go to print an image from Smart Photo my printed image is a lot darker than the one on my screen, can anyone shed any light on this. It seems I have to make my image very much lighter to get anywhere near what I want, is there any way of caliberating my laptop to match the image any help would be appreciated.

[gary]

This sounds like a calibration issue, but it's difficult to know without seeing the problem. For example it could be a problem with the printer.

There are various products you can buy to calibrate your monitor, if you use a search engine for "color calibration" you can find them. Alternatively there is this page written by microsoft:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind ... ur-display

Gary