Wow, these are all great. I have had so much trouble with printers. I used to print them out on my own home printer, but the colors were always horrid. I was always tweaking, using up ink, paper, and still never getting it right.
I tried a local printer in town, and had 100 postcards made of two different pictures. One had a lot of green in it, one had a lot of pink in it. When I went back to get them it was awful. The pinks looked neon as did the greens. I told him I just couldn't send out postcards to editors and art directors looking like that and he began to explain that he was going to stop taking orders from artists because they were just too color picky. Well duh! I'd like it to actually look like what I had intended for it. I decided I would never go back to him.
Another time I had some printed at a FedEx printing place. I needed some portfolio pics for a conference. I was careful to print out on a thick paper and then picked two pics from the batch I was having trouble adjusting on my home printer. I then waited there while they printed out the samples. Way, way too dark. He lightened by 15% and printed out again, and it was near perfect. So now I know that most of them will need to be lightened to look like what I have on my monitor. (I had even transferred them all to CMYK before taking them to FedEx.)
(I was printing out 8 x 10 at 300 dpi.)
Another question, what is this spider thingy you all speak of, and where can I get one.