[Christine]

I have spent a very exhausting couple of evenings trying to sort settings so that monitor,Elements 4.0 and printer,HP Photosmart 8450 are all compatible.
I have read every possible thread re calibration etc,but that is beyond my capabilities,so I have set the Elements to "optimize for print " setting.The printer is set at default for Adobe SRG,as it has been mentioned that if ones cam shoots in Adobe,not the Srgb,then everything should be compatible.
The printed shots are perfect in quality,but just fractionally darker.I have not noticed this before,until obtaining a widescreen monitor,so everything is very bright.
Would I be better off using the original default settings.The new system is a bit of a nuisance as everything goes straight in Elements,whereas I prefer to load into My pictures.
Trying to put some RAW files into Adobe,took me 3 hrs trying to convert them,lost half of them,and the only way I could convert to JPG was by saving for Web,what a waste of time!!!!
So if anybody is using a similar set up,and could advise re settings please,I would be grateful.I have printed off an image this evening,it looks okay,very sharp ,perfect detail,but just a tad darker than the screen image.
This keep printing and testing is using too much ink,very costly.