C6180 Images print dark

Printing from windows7, I am struggling to get images printed with the colours correct, they are far too dark. The images were originally RAW, have been processed and exported from Lightroom as TIFF files (also tried JPG).
All images print far too dark and I really cannot work out why. I've tried increasing the brightness in the driver settings, but this didn't help anywhere near enough.
I realise that I might need to do something about colour profiles and colour management, but I'm unsure what (especially as windows7 as new diaglogues for all of this).
Has anyone seen this, know if what I need to do, or can offer any help?
Thanks.

First of all, you must mean Photoshop CS6, not the ancient Photoshop 6 which is about 14 years old.
Go to the Help menu in Photoshop and select Updates and update Photoshop.

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Hi DYP,
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