Unable to match monitor brightness and prints when printing from lightroom.

Trying to figure out how to print the brightness of what I see on the monitor. Running a windows 8 box with current Adobe creative cloud account. Trying to print directly from lightroom. Have a colormunki display and have calibrated the monitor which helped a bunch. Also turned off the color adjustments in the printer settings. Currently the monitor brightness is set to 0 (by the munki). Am printing on a canon pixma 9500 mkII and my printer drivers are up to date.. This is not just me being picky it is just plain off. Am printing on Moab Lasal Matte and/or Moab Pearl metallic and am also using the correct icc profile for it. If I raise the exposure to see the darker areas, my colors wash out. If I print where my calibration tells me to, the prints are too dark. Am having issues finding a middle ground. Even tried to raise the print adjustment brightness with no difference. With all that I have done and spent, I really feel like I should have better results. Can someone help?

Andrew Rodney has written the definitive answer to this issue: Why are my prints too dark? Article on Luminous Landscape
In summary the luminance of your monitor is to bright - try turning the luminance down to about 100 cd/m2.
Exactly what monitor luminance is ideal for your editing environment is a trial-and-error process.
Viewing conditions are also important.
A print that is too dark for a dim viewing environment may be ideal in a much brighter environment.
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>However, you are very selective in your quote. Michael
goes on to say
>(and I agree with him on this point):
>
>"The problem with logical inches and all other fixed
units of measure
>is that they do not scale well on systems with different
dot-per-inch
>settings. What may seem just right in Windows at 96 dpi
may be too
>large or too small on other systems.
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logical inch is just another way of looking at what is meant
by the
screen dpi value. Scaling problems, with different dpi
settings, has
always been a Windows problem and results from the way that
the OS
handles scaling. Fonts scale perfectly. Actual windows, and
other
containers, don't. This is a problem programmers have
grappled with
since the first Windows OS. Vista is the first OS to try to
tackle this
problem.
>Thus, percentages or ems work best when cross-platform
compatibility is
>desired."
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inches, are
totally irrelevant when specifying ems and percentages.
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sized in
physical inches into a number of screen pixels. That is the
_only_
purpose of screen dpi. It's a very simple algorithm.
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How do _you_ think a font sized in points (inches) gets
translated to a
specific number of pixels on screen. I'd be interested in
your answer.
For the screen a conversion from physical inches to pixels is
always
necessary because, as you say, pixels are the unit of screen
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but they are not just a "standard" measurement, they are the
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consistent measurement. It's not the users program that
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on screen but the Operating System. The program requests the
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set a
>font-size of 14px than use units that both you and
Michael Bowers
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a
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measurement)
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logical inches
>appears to add little of practical value to choosing the
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informed than "Points are only for print because I don't know
what they
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Sheets: The
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difficult
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close
reading, however, from page 83 onwards shows that Eric Meyer
has an
imperfect notion of the meaning of screen dpi. Heresy!! He's
hardly
alone, which is why I did a web site.
>
>That's why I recommend leaving points for use in print
style sheets.
>However, if you enjoy making life difficult for yourself
by using
>points for onscreen design, you're perfectly free to do
so.
Once again, I have never advocated that. You are setting up a
straw man
to knock down. You can do better than that.
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