Look I am not going to beat around the bush , you can spend the next 6 months wasting ink and paper and listening to every concieveable way to adjust your printer , or as others has said PROFILE YOUR MONITOR trust me I have been there done that . I spent $300.00 ON a Eye One display 1 , and never looked back .You don't have to spend that much , but you need to do it . Any monitor profiler is better than none .Or simply turn down the brightness on the monitor for now until the print matches the monitor . Most monitors have a fast track or pro way to adjust color correction and brightness . Once done you will wonder why you didn't do it sooner . Remember , if your prints are dark you are looking at a too bright a monitor , if your prints are light your monitor is too dark , rarely happens that print are too light. The site I use is GretagMcbeth x- rite they also make the Color Munkey not sure on spelling . It is Color Munki on Amazon prime $168.99. Well spent money I personally would get the Eye One display pro $ 239.00

If the Epson profiles do not appear correct, it is only because your monitor is not properly calibrated.

It is best to calibrate the monitor, though for less than perfection there is a generally good enough method.

Download any of several test images and print one of them without any editing at all. That print will be very very close to "right". Then adjust the monitor brightness to match the print.

That will get "correct" image brightness, but it won't (exactly) match color variations at different brightness levels. Frankly most photographers can't see the difference and when they learn how they are willing to do more proper monitor calibration.

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The reviews are starting to come in for the Nikon D850. To quote from Photographyblog: "Offering a compelling balance of size and speed, the Nikon D850 is the best all-round DSLR camera that we've ever had the pleasure of reviewing. This is really the one camera that can do it all, from landscapes to action, reportage to weddings, the D850 handles it all with aplomb." I anticipate the three usual responses: 1)we don't have enough information, 2)there's no such thing as the world's best camera, 3)mirrorless cameras rock. What other bodies would you nominate for world's best?

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Dan, every Epson I've ever owned has worked just fine, out of the box, so long as the images I fed it looked fine on a PROPERLY calibrated and custom ICC profiled monitor, and I used Epson papers with Epson inks and chose the correct printer driver settings.

It's all a system. If your prints don't match the monitor, and you absolutely know you are using the correct profile for that printer/paper/ink combination, then the monitor is not properly calibrated and profiled, OR there is a profile mismatch somewhere.