I have always had headaches when It comes to getting consistent color from Monitor to Printer.I've never really had to worry about it before because I didn't print many Photographs. Recently I have received a steady stream of Photo Restoration Projects Mainly from Friends and Family and getting good pay,now I have to focus on the Aspect of Color Management. I've recently Purchased a Lexmark PrintTrio X1150 Scanner/Printer/Copier a couple weeks back. My Monitor is an HP Pavillion v70's Monitor I'm also in the process of obtaining a Digital Camera also. Now I've been working with Photoshop for a little over 2 years know I think in my own mind that i've become fairly good at it. Except when it comes to Color (Monitor to Printer) I've made up my mind to try and setup my monitor printer correctly. The Main Problem is that colors are a darker when printed then the ones on my Pc screen. Is there any others that have had this problem? Could any body send me some tutorials on this the built in manual seems to complicated I've never really relied on the manual everything I've learned has come from online tutorials and from just playing around.

Colour Management System (CMS) has been an ongoing challenge for me and most PS professionals. The best thing to do is to calibrate your monitor to match your output (that's what gets seen). I know some will "beg-to-differ" but you'll have a better shot at less surprises that way...

Also keep in mind, the light source where you have your system setup impacts things too. I know of an individual who works mainly during the day and had his monitor calibrated to dark (compensating for the daylight coming through his window) and did not realize it till he worked an "all-nighter".

Are you suppling the outputs or do you use a local printshop? If you are outsourcing, then you might want to request the ICC profile for the printer from the printshop.

If you're doing the output you can calibrate your system with Adobes (supplied with PS) little Gamma utility.

Look for topics like: CMS, Calibration and Producing Consistent Colour, Creating ICC Profiles within the "search-engine" of your choice for some tut's and articles on this subject. As i said, CMS is a "beast" to try and understand...
hopefully we can help you out,

:)
retrocity

check some of these links and see if they're any help...

CMS for Beginners
Custom ICM Profiles
Photoshop Color Management

saves me from typing ;)

retrocity

I just happened to have the document I have as a wallpaper / desktop back ground in PS.. what I found most inconvenient was the differance between turning "proofing off" and Proofing on to |current monitiro settings | with proofing on they matched.. with it off THEY were mis-matched.. it's almost weird .

With proofing set to your monitor profile PS is showing you what you will get if you send the raw RGB numbers to the display with no colour correction, so it should match the wallpaper. With proofing off PS is doing its best to show the colours the RGB values have in your working space (sRGB, if you haven't changed the defaults), which will not be the same as they have on your screen, so it will send a different set of RGB values to the video card and the image won't match the wallpaper.

then all you have to do each time a file is opened from then on is convert the colour space how convenient