Color management: printed colors off

Hi,
I have a problem where colors are not printed correctly from the PDF. It seems like the problem only happens to the PDF file.
I have a powerpoint file, and when I print it, the colors look the same as it is in the monitor. Once I convert it to a PDF (using acrobat), the colors in the PDF are still the same as the PPT on the screen. However, when I try to print from the PDF, the print out shows much darker shades of colors compared to other the powerpoint print out.
I've been searching online for a solution for a while, but couldn't find anything. (The closest I got was the color management setting in acrobat, but it didn't work after multiple tweaks.) I suspected that it was a printer issue (since monitor settings can really skew what color looks like when its printed), but since the PPT printed correctly, I think its safe to assume that it's a setting in acrobat that I would need to tweak.
Anyone can shed some light onto this?
Thanks in advance,
Ken

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Calibration brings the monitor to a defined state by correction tables to correct white point and tone response curve. This information is loaded into the display driver at boot-up, and affects the display for virtually all programs (except a few games and such that bypass the driver).
Profiling measures (just measures, doesn't adjust) the colour space and other parameters of the monitor, after calibration. Generally colour space can't be altered, only measured. It is this measurement that goes in the profile. (Confusingly, the calibration corrections tables are also stored in the profile, despite being nothing to do with the profile!)
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