Why is the print out darker than the colors on the screen?

This is happening in both Photoshop and Illustrator. My prints of my work come out darker and grayer than the bright colors on the monitor. I am on a Mac OSX 10.6.8.
When I adjust the Color Settings from the Edit drop-down in both programs to "Monitor Color" that still doesn't help. And a dialogue box tells me to fix the problem in Bridge.
Can I fix this problem in Bridge or is this more smoke n' mirrors?
Thanks!

notverybright,
You may have a quick look at Gamut here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut
Color management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CMYK color model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model#Physical_principles_for_the_choice_of_red.2C_ green.2C_and_blue

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Good morning.
I'm so hoping that someone has an easy solution to this printing issue.
In PSE6, I've created 85 scrapbook poem pages in the following format: 300 dpi; 12 x 12 size that will be reduced to a print size of 8 x8.
I worked all summer on this project for my 98-year young grandma who is the author of these poems. Gram is spry and healthy, but given her age, we are both concerned that it will take a long time to remedy the problem - if the only solution to lighten is to go through each layer of all 85 pages and reset the light intensity. As she says in jest, "time" is really not on her side. This is our second poem book project - the first was handmade scrapbook poem pages that were printed directly from a UPS copycenter printer.
For this second project, I printed some test copies of a couple of pages on my inkjet Lexmark printer. Photo quality paper: the printed copy was much darker than what appeared on the laptop PC screen - details couldn't be distinguished. Lower quality paper: the printed copy had a faded looking print.
I will be taking the PDF format of the pages to the UPS copycenter, again. I've been told that the prints can be lightened, however, I'm concerned that the quality of the print will be compromised.
Any easy solutions to resolve this problem?
Thank you.
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Any suggestions or comments about this topic? I've been told by the UPS copy center that lightness/darkness modifications can be made from their printer; however my concern is that the print quality will be affected (i.e. lightening will cause a faded look).

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Please read this post then provide some details. What printer model? What operating system? What program are you printing from?
Some programs such as Photoshop give the option to print to CMYK or sRGB color spaces. Even though the printer uses CMYK inks the driver is expecting sRGB data. If CMYK is selected the prints will be much too dark.
Another thing to check is the media type. If you are printing on plain paper and have seelcted Photo paper the prints have too much ink.
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notverybright,
You may have a quick look at Gamut here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamut
Color management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CMYK color model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model#Physical_principles_for_the_choice_of_red.2C_ green.2C_and_blue

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