Apple prints, greens too dark

Hi,
After trying quite a few print services I now use Apple's via the built in menu option in Aperture. They're consistently good except I find greens such as grass and foilage are coming back too dark.
To try to compensate for this when preparing my prints I work with the monitor brightness set to minimum and lift the mids and shadows but this often isn't enough and they still come back with the greens too dark. I then use the dodge (lighten) brush to make areas of greenery even lighter and this seems to achieve the desired result but it seems a bit over the top.
I'm in the UK and use the European printing service that I think is based in Willich, Germany.
Is anyone else experiencing such problems? Does anyone have any tips to achieve better results.
Thanks,
Dave.

The following tip is in no way a 'correct' colormanaged workflow. But you could try to softproof in sRGB.
This is based on the assumption that all Mac monitors are quite fairly calibrated when they leave the factory. And that sRGB is probably the assumed profile for the print shop, or at least this is always the safest profile when sending to a printshop. When you want real control, take a print shop that supplies printerprofiles, calibrate your monitor w/ special hardware and softproof to the delivered profiles.

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