Quality not as good as shown on laptop why ?

Hi please can anyone help when after editing my photos and printing them they look nothing near as good as they did on my laptops display.The sharpness is nothing near as good and the colours don't look quite right the whole picture looks a lot darker why could this be.I know my printer is capable of better as it has done before with only basic JPEG photos.

You're not giving us anywhere near enough information on what you are doing. I still can't answer your question based on what you have told us.
It sounds like you are new to the whole process. You ought to read up on colour management, colour spaces, calibration and display/printer profiling, etc.
Step one is calibrating and profiling your computer display. Without this, you have no idea that what you are seeing is accurate, in terms of brightness, contrast, and colour balance. You'll be processing your images to compensate for any inaccuracies. e.g. if your screen is too bright and slightly magenta, your images will end up too dark and slightly green. You may then find that this can be improved by adjusting the print settings, but this is just a workaround, and not a sensible course of action.
I wrote an overview on the subject, which contains a link to an overview of colour management:
http://yphotography.co.uk/articles/calibrating-your-workflow/
it doesn't go into any detail. For that, you'd need to Google "Photoshop color management workflow" or something similar, and spend a while digesting the subject.
By the way, this is the Camera Raw forum, and printing isn't really relevant here. You still haven't told us which application you are trying to print from, so I am assuming it's Photoshop, nor have you told us what settings you are using, both in the application and the printer setting dialog. But I think your best course of action would be to read up on the subject before going any further.

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Hi. I'm not new to PrE but am new to the forum.
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kcarter
Please excuse if I mention things you may already be aware of, but I did not want to take anything for granted.
The installed RAM on Machine 1 is too low for HD work, and I wonder about the processor on Machine 2 even though it has more installed RAM than that on Machine 1. For now, I will bypass the usual drills and get to the source media and project settings.
1. From what I can put together, your source media from iPhone 4 are 720p up to 30 frames per second. That usually translates into a variable frame rate which can be problematic for Premiere Elements. The variable can lead to audio out of sync, but not necessarily. If all else fails, then it is onto HandBrake or the like to change the variable into a constant frame rate.
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http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-accuracy-of-automatic-project.html
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Classically it is written if you have the correct project preset you should have no colored line over the content when you bring the video to
the Timeline manually set. But, just the variable frame rate can trigger the unrendered indicator (orange instead of red in versions 11 and 12).
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Do you have the latest version of QuickTime installed on either of your computers?
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