Aperture Printing: Gamma Setting Counterpart in Photoshop?

I've finally gotten my printing sorted out in Aperture and can get good prints from my Epson 7500 most of the time. I still have margin problems, but I suspect that is more a driver issue. At any rate, I'm really starting to like the gamma setting in Aperture. It allows me to turn up the brightness of my monitor a bit and then compensate when printing--works well and gives my aging eyes some relief.
Now I'd like to keep it that way but have problems in Photoshop when I print--prints come out darker because I've got the monitor turned up. Does anyone know of a corresponding setting in Photoshop (CS2 by the way).
Thanks in advance,
Roy
2.7 Dual G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   ATI X800 XT

Victor,
Thanks for the response, but perhaps I wasn't clear. Here's more detail on the scenario. The monitor is calibrated and everything prints fine, in PS and Aperture. Because the apple monitor is so bright, that it has to be turned down to make photo's match (too much luminance).
Now what I would like to do is run the monitor a bit brighter (easier on the eyes). In Aperture, I can do everything as normal and just bump the gamma setting in the print dialog box from 1 to 1.1 or 1.2 and the photo prints great. Now I'd like to do the same in PS. So, the question is if there is anything in PS that accomplishes the same thing at the time of output.
Roy

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