Webpress Vs Digital Book Printing Problem

It's time for the 4th run of my photo story book. It was created using MS Word and converted to a PDF. The first 3 runs were on a digital press but that costs 4 times as much as a longer run of a 1000 or more books on a webpress. My problem is, in the soft proof all the photos are washed out. We are on our 4th try with modifying the photos using photoshop. Any idea where I am going wrong?

Yes my monitor is calibrated, a NEC2490WUXi. The gave us a hard copy of our 60 page book printed by a digital (?) press that is set up to mimic the webpress output. The copy was not on glossy paper but plain paper. They say there will be a little more color and contrast on the final glossy paper but not as much as our original book. Could it be as simple as the wrong settings when converting from MS Word to PDF?

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