Help Please! D60, Photoshop, Dark Prints

[TSORoanoke]

I have a D60, use Photoshop 6.0, and have an HP 7350 printer.
I shoot in RAW mode most of the time,
use Canon's RAW converter (Linear) to 16-bit TIFF files.
I then apply the D60 profile to the photo and it looks great.
Minor changes (crop, levels, USM...). and it looks even better on screen.
I then print, and its very dark.
If I convert to sRGB before I print, its ok, but still much darker than on screen.
I printed the same file on a 4x6 glossy paper and it looks great - light, well saturated, sharp...
I print this same file on an 8x10 matte, and its darker than the 4x6.

Any help you could offer for how I can get the larger prints/matte prints to look "right" would be much appreciated.

Tom

[JMSetzler]

There is generally a strong difference in contrast between matte and glossy paper. I dunno if that is affecting your result difference here or not. When comparing two different size outputs, it would probably be best to compare them printed on same or similar media...

[TSORoanoke]

Thank you.

I thought the paper type may be causing my problem, so I tried using both matte and glossy. Same results on both.

The problem appears to be in the sizing. I printed 3x5, 5x7, and 8x10 of the same file, on both papers. The small one is "ok", the middle one is just perfect, and the large one is dark. I've checked the color profiles for the image and printer and they are the same.

I'm truly stumped.

[atotos]

Have you tried converting to CMYK first and then altering the parameters after the conversion ?

I also bump up resolution to 300 dpi to work on it and then go back to lower res for avoiding using too much ink in print. ;)