This tutorial might be useful to those calibrating monitors: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/why_are_my_prints_too_dark.shtml There are no absolutes and the goal is to find a monitor brightness that coupled with your print viewing area will result in a match. I calibrate my NEC to 115 and use a Solux bulb next to my printer for viewing the print and comparing it to my monitor (I don't have the space to set up a separate viewing booth. This set up gives me a spot on match with my monitor. What you cannot control is what display lighting a friend or customer will use for one of your prints. Alan