Color Management - How get monitor and printer to match?

We have not been able to get what we see on our monitor and what we get out of our printer to reasonably match - the prints are always significantly darker than the monitor.  It makes working on Photoshop Elements (both 5 and Trial 7) virtually worthless, as we can't rely on getting out what we see after making adjustments to our photos.  We bought a Colormunki to calibrate the monitor and create paper profiles, but that didn't solve the problem.  We have worked with the Colormunki people for weeks and haven't made any progress.  We are sure that we are using the correct settings in both Elements and the Printer to have Elements control color and apply the ICC profile.  We have an Epson Stylus Photo R2400 printer and a Samsung SyncMaster 2253BW monitor.  We think, at this point, that the monitor maybe the problem.  Apparently it is known for its excessive brightness - as even with the calibration set for very low brightness, the problem remains.  Anyway, our question is whether anyone can think of a solution or, if not, can recommend a monitor more likely to give us a reliable match to the printer - what photographers/photoshop users use??  alternatively, any ideas where we can contact people who might be able to help????  Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm having the same problem with a Syncmaster 226CW Elements 7 and a Spyder3.  I've cal'd the monitor to 6500 K and 90 cd/SQM but the prints are still very dark on my Canon MP520.  I've also tried letting Elements manage the color and selected one of the Canon profiles -- again no luck. Several emails to Canon just gave me advice to clean nozzles and ck patterns -- no help from Canon so far.  Pondering what to try next....

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