This may be an easy solution but I have struggled with this problem for several years and now am getting more and more into printing prints for people that want them on different mediums.
Currently I have both monitors calibrated with each other using the spider 3. The monitors match each other and current status is that they are calibrated correctly. I am running Photoshop CS5 on a mac pro with 2 dell U27 monitors. The printer I am using is an HP Z3100. My current paintings have the sRGB colour profile. If I decide to check out the colour difference on the screen of the painting by changing the profile to "HP ID Glossy paper" GE ON or GE OFF, doesn't matter the digital painting barely changes "and I mean barely that the average person would never notice. Anyways, when I go to print, I always leave the digital painting on sRGB. Now in CS5 you have to allow the application to take care of the colour calibration, so this is what I do. When I go to print if I select HP ID Gloss the prints come out looking identical to my monitor. "**THIS IS A VERY GOOD THING FOR ME**".
Here comes the problem.... If I select a different paper like the Hahnemuhle Smooth Fine Art paper, the colours come out all washed out..... I mean really greyish.... Almost like the saturation has to be punched up.
As far as paper calibration is concerned, both the ID Gloss and the Smooth Fine Are Paper were calibrated with the printer the same day and as far as the proofing samples on the paper they look fine.
I also checked in photoshop and if I take the painting and preview it with the Smooth fine art paper as the colour profile it does look similar to the washed out or greyish sample that prints out. I guess I am just a little confused why the ID Glossy turns out identical but not the other paper.
Any advice or suggestions would really be helpful.
thanks.