Color consistency printing in Aperture 2.1, Epson R2880

I just got a new Epson R2880. After a lot of initial test printing, looking there, reading that, I have come to the conclusion that Aperture has a major issue with color management printing from it- I have been reading others with Epson R1800, R1900, R2100, R2200, R2400 and Canon Pixma 9500 having similar issues.
I realize I have to turn off the Epson color management, and that improved the printing, but it still looks like a muted sRGB print. When I print from Preview using the Epson sRGB or Epson Adobe if the photo has an Adobe profile or a wide gamut (16 bit tiff), I get much more accurate prints and the colors that I would expect to see. Reds are vibrant and so on.
From Aperture again, it's muted. So as far as I understand Aperture manages the colors for you and the Epson driver has to be turned off in color management, and set to the right paper. I think what needs to happen it hat we should be able to turn Aperture's color management off, and have Aperture send the data to the Epson driver, enable the Epson driver and let it do its job (we enable the Epson driver beforehand, before printing).
I have not been able to find a way to turn Aperture's color management off. This is a major workflow issue for me because I can't really print directly from Aperture which is not very good.
Any ideas?
- Raist

Raist,
First of all, thanks for giving notice that Epson has somewhat quietly introduced the replacement for the R2400 -- I had missed that.
Are you running Tiger, as your Profile info indicates? In Leopard, I see the same issues with properly setting up printing whether printing from Aperture 2, Photoshop CS3 or Pages. Conflict appears to result from allowing the printer to control printing vs the application.
My understanding is that if Color Management is selected, the printer and driver may ignore the color tweaking you have done, and based upon algorithms in the driver make its own adjustments -- this is not something I want to happen. In choosing the color profile in Aperture (done by selecting the paper type and quality) I achieve the better and consistent results. To get equal results from printing from Photoshop, the same settings must be used, but I find the Print Presets in Aperture much easier to accomplish this with. Recently I printed a photo from CS3 (because the final retouching required the use of layers) rather than Aperture, the first attempt was horrible simply because I forgot to turn off color management in the print dialogues.
Again, my understanding is that by selecting the proper Color Profile for the Epson paper being used, and by further turning off color management, you should expect the best, most proper, use of the Epson driver, managed from Aperture.
Ernie

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