Thanks so much for the early replies... all very helpful but not the answer to my problem.
So, just manually lowering the brightness and contrast after making an advanced monitor profile with ColorMunki (setting the luminance level to 90) Jack’s print comes out as it should.
Not sure what your are trying and what you are saying. You are blaming your display ... did the print look good? Why after making changes to your display would the print come out as it should? That doesn’t make sense, the print shouldn’t change based on settings to the display.
The point of the target is to find where in the workflow the problem is. You should load the file, and print it
without any modifications. It should come out perfect. You never make adjustments to the file.
If the print comes out perfect, you then know your display profile and brightness setup need to be changed. Basically do what it takes to get the image on the display to match the print you just made. This can mean luminance, contrast, and white point.
If the print comes out bad, then you have a problem with the printing workflow. This doesn’t mean you also don’t have a problem with the display setup, but changing the display setup won’t cure this problem. You need to make sure when you print the print, no matter what it looks like on the display, it prints correctly. And this is by changing the workflow, not the file.