Avoiding the dark

[lowep]

I am preparing some photos for offset printing and would appreciate any advice about the best way to check in Photoshop to make sure they don´t come out too dark?

I have had the not so good experience of doing a lot of work on a properly calibrated monitor to adjust levels, curves etc according to the best advice I could get with splendid results at least on my monitor only to discover at the last minute from test proofs that everything is too dark and needs tweaking.

Funnily enough never had problem with files being too light?

[Phil Indeblanc]

Have you checked the proofing view with black point comp and paper?/Ctrl Y
This gives you an idea, but depending on your monitors accuracy a proof print is likely the best method.
What monitor are you using?

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... Funnily enough never had problem with files being too light?

For that to happen, your monitor would have to be too dark, which is immediately noticeable. Prints are usually too dark because the monitor is too bright (assuming everything else is set up properly), or the print lighting is too weak.

[Phil Indeblanc]

Slobodan triggers a question...What gamma are you using ? What OS?

[digitaldog]

I am preparing some photos for offset printing and would appreciate any advice about the best way to check in Photoshop to make sure they don´t come out too dark?

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/why_are_my_prints_too_dark.shtml

[lowep]

Thanks for the useful tips

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/why_are_my_prints_too_dark.shtml

& also to you digitaldog for sniffing out this pointer to exactly what I was was hoping to find.