IMac calibration tips please!

Hi there all,
I would be ecstatic if anyone could lend me some tips as to how I go about calibrating my iMac.
When I have been working on images in Lightroom and Aperture and then create a jpg to export for printing at an online printers the overall quality has been awful. The colors are dull, flat lacking in saturation and generally quite disappointing. My screen has been set at full brightness when working up until recently when I tried a little trick to workaround the problem. Now after a few test prints on my home printer I learnt to dull the display and then pick up the brightness and color once more within my editing suites. This seems a little bit convoluted as a workaround and would really like to work with the display at a brightness setting I enjoy working with.
Can anybody suggest a way of calibrating that does not require a third party app or product, or does anyone have suggestions as to the best method of attack??!!
Many thanks in advance,
Nip

Hi nipfluff
Download the latest Leopard update from Epson for your printer:
http://esupport.epson-europe.com/ViewArticle.aspx?lng=en-GB&kbid=318461&data=+ab 4PwTTw7eujySdvU002F04GiMun4oEc0ki
Then in the *Display Preferences* for Color, uncheck the box for *Show profiles for this display only* and select the *Epson RGB* profile.
For me using the Epson profile works great:
1. my display is a little darker and a lot richer than using the iMac profile and
2. my Epson prints, scans and iMac Display all match perfectly.
Dennis

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