Images are very dark when printing??

Hi all, I'm new to printing with photoshop but having trouble and hope someone can help?...shooting in raw and RGB colour, converting images to jpg. In photoshop and they look great on screen, but skin tones and colours look really dark when printed?? What am I missing

In addition to calibrating your screen which will help with the colors, the odds are your display is turned up way too bright. Depending on the calibration system you get, it may allow setting the screen brightness to an optimum brightness. But you can reduce the brightness now even before you calibrate the display. Try 1/2 of the full luminance to see if that makes the display look more like your dark prints...

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