Color Printing not representing on screen

Hello, I am sure this question has been asked a number of times and after googling and trying various solutions, nothing has seemed to of helped.
I have a Canon Pro-100 printer and I am trying to print a poster I have made on Photoshop CS6. I am using a 200gsm paper and using the manual feed tray to print. The poster contains no photos and is text only - blue back ground, white text mostly.
My problem is the blue is no where near the color that is shown on screen.
I first made the mistake of creating the document with the color mode set to RGB Color. (This strangely has produced the nearest to the color on screen although is still quite some way off - it was dull compared to on screen).
I then redesigned the poster using CMYK Color 8 bit as Color Mode and this produced a even more dull print - somewhere between blue and grey.
Since then I have tried things like turning off color management policies in color settings of Photoshop. Printing directly from photoshop and letting Photoshop Manage Colors. Everything I have tried has either printed the blue as a blue-grey or even nearer to grey.
It does not have to be exactly as it appears on screen but I would like it to be similar.
Any help would be great. Thank you!
EDIT: I should also add that I have not had this issue when printing photographs that have been edited in Lightroom.

Sounds like your video card maybe failing. If you have the previous Macbook Pro version, you may be experiencing the 8600gt failure that has plagued that line. I would take it to the Apple Store or call Applecare.

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