Thatās a good point that and I know exactly what you meanš.
You donāt tend to think of something like that when all you want to do is SO simple, like passing a file to someone to print, but then can turn out quite complicated if you want the right results and there being shed loads of variables.
Thanks again Chris, much appreciatedš
No worries, pm your address and Iāll sort it out. I have a 2 monitor setup. One is calibrated for printing, one is calibrated for showing online. The difference is pretty remarkable!!! The first thing to do is reduce your screen brightness, massively, and make sure you dont have any ambient light shining on the monitor. Iāll get it packed up, in the meantime, go do some googling to make it worth my while. No beer tokens required.
Will doš.
Really appreciate the advice, I never knew there was so much involved.
The way Iām seeing it is, if I can print off an image of where Iāve been and flown, and can represent it in the the style that Iāve given it on screen, thatās a proper end product for meš¬. Job doneš
It can be incredibly frustrating!!! I have an 8 ink, A3 printer that uses pigment based inks, and expensive paper. Trying to get the screen to match the final print can waste a lot of time, money and effort. Buying a colorimeter has saved so much frustration it was worth every penny!!! Iāll send you some useful links
I spent years doing this, wasting a lot of time and money. Iāve now got my monitors very close to what I get on print, but still find itās far more cost effective getting a good professional lab to do my printing. I never ever printed my wedding work but liked to print out A3 landscape prints for myself, now I donāt even do that. The links I listed somewhere above are the best professional photo labs in the UK. Yes, theyāll be more expensive but the quality is second to none.
I hardly ever print stuff anymore John. Colour stuff for familly gets given to the missus, I think she uses photobox and she seems happy with the results. Iāll do the ocasional colour print on an Epson Expression using custom ICC profiles from the paper manufacturer, the results are usualy pretty good. I only ever print black and white on the big printer now, and itās getting on in years. When it eventualy breaks it wonāt be getting replaced as I just donāt print enough to jusify the costs. If I ever manage to capture something stunning that just had to be put on the wall Iād send it to someone to do it justice.
Just be aware Ady, it can be a very deep rabbit hole, and I mean VERY deep.
If I were going to be selling prints Iād be inclined to do what John @Drumsagard, does ie get a pro to do it for you. Very few pro photogs nowadays print their own stuff and thereās a reason for that, pro printers usually do it better cos thatās what they do for a living, day in day out.
I have two monitors set up, one for photo editing to print, one for photo editing to the web. They are both very different. The one for print is also the one I use for general pc stuff and work as the brightness is way down. I have very light sensitive eyes and working on the other one for too long really hurts. Once youāve got calibrated youāll be shocked at the difference in brightness, colours, and temp. It will look absolutely awful at first. But your eyes and brain adjust very quickly, and once they do every monitor you look at will just be wrong
You do realise everyone will now want a borrow?
It will end up doing more miles than the The GADC Drone Relay Challenge Discussion Thread drone! 
mmhhh, perhaps I should charge it out at a tenner a day? It will have paid for itself in short order
Yep, been there and that was just trying to get colours right for YT vids . Itās akin to pulling teeth I find.
If this thingy Iām borrowing sorts or makes the process easier thereāll be one purchased for sureš
Iām getting around to them, Iām a cheapo so thought Iād start with the least possible pennies spentš¤£
I probably will get brassed off with doing it meself, but Iām one of those people who HATES paying some other folk for what I may have been able to pull off meself. It can be psychologically damaging at timesā¦
āColourā ā¦ is always a pain, pretty much.
Something simple in Adobe Illustrator, recently ā¦ I thought Iād finished when I noticed the āblacksā looked only dark grey.
At some point, and Iāve no idea how, Iād set the object to āblackā under CMYK colours, rather than the RGB I was working in. Totally different.
No doubt the more I get into the colour thing, the more infuriated Iām gonna getš¤£. Iāll give it a go anyhow.
Black and white is the future!
Processing and printing in the bathroom, good old days
Did plenty of that. Colour, too.
Always used a lab for colour printing but did did plenty of E6 of home (Jobo kit was excellent)
Me too, used to love printing from my Fuji Velvia slides.
Black and White in my darkroom was fun and easy.
On a printer though? Took countless hours to get rid of colour casts and tones that we not on the original images. I miss my smelly, stinky, dark and dingy darkroom.
I have started developing film again though, I use a one shot Dev/Stop/Fix chemical now. I was sceptical it would work, but work it does.