I have a problem trying to calibrate my monitor. Basic setup is Mac G4 (OS10.3) Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 230sb Monitor & Epson 2100 Printer. Images are originated on a Nikon D70 and from 5"x4" scanned (by lab) transparencies. The problem is that I cannot calibrate the monitor to give even a rough approximation of the printed image. The Monitor image, even after maximum fiddling is a high contrast, high saturation image with limited tonal definition. Whereas the resulting corresponding printed image is just the opposite - flat, desaturated with huge amount of tonal definition. I have tried using different colour space settings in photoshop to no great effect. I can get excellent results, but this is done by guesswork, which is both time consuming and expensive. I phoned Mitsubishi's help line to be told that this should not be the case and even though this is a plug in and play type monitor it has industry standard calibration facilities and basically it was obviously my fault as I didn't know what I was doing, yes that's why I phoned you! I cannot even get it to calibrate the basic contrast test offered by the OS10 calibration software. So before I go and spend more money on calibration equipment is it me or the monitor? What monitors would you recommend?
Any help would be much appreciated.