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Why doesn't my printed image look like it did on screen?

Different monitors display colors differently. Unless professionally calibrated, your image on Monitor A can look very different to your image on monitor B in terms of hue, contast and brightness.

Also, computer monitors use RGB (red, green blue) phosphors to display color.. When something is printed CMYK process inks are used. The difference in color range between mixing RGB phosphors (light) and CMYK platelets (ink) is significant and the CMYK spectrum is much smaller than the RGB spectrum.

So, some colors that you see on screen are very difficult to reproduce exactly using CMYK -- some of the hardest colors to match going from RGB to CMYK are blues.