I was attempting this all evening yesterday.
It took me ages to mess about tweaking the gamma on my monitor to get it right.
I then gave up and left it at 2.2 (the default) which seemed fine (bangs head on brick wall).
I then tried to go through pook's tutorial about how to print from photoshop the proper way.
For ages I hunted and hunted and hunted down the correct ICC profiles.
I have an Epson 830 printer.
It was no problem finding a generic ICC profile for the printer.
It was also no problem finding profiles for said printer, and the various epson papers.
Could I find ICC profiles for HP Premium Photo Glossy Paper (what I have), for use with Epson 830? Not a chance.
I did find some last year that someone had made, not any more, they seem to have disappeared into the ether.
So I tried using the similar Epson printer paper one....
...printed my image out....still too bloomin dark
It's still not what I see on screen.
I'm ready to kill someone very shortly
The fact I have a bunged up nostril too....so bunged up it's throbbing.....
Oh and this was after spending about 5 hours trying to unblock my print heads yet again.