Colors In Adobe Illustrator Print Muddy or Desaturated

I am trying to figure out why Illustrator CS4 prints colors muddy or desaturated, but if I print a webpage from Internet Explorer it looks fine. What should I check to correct my output to my Dell 3100cn.

For the printer the profile changes from paper to paper you select the profile as profiled for that printer.
Fo instance many people use Adobe RGB which is wrong.
For instance many users leave the document as CMYK and the default printer profile of sRGB or if you s=change your settings to Adobe RGB then they leave it as Adobe RGB.
When the document is profiled in CMYK say as US SWOP Coated 2
This is the default RGB profile for the printer which is an RGB printer which does not make sense
This makes more sense
And converting to the RGB color space and using Adobe RGB for the color settings and choosing the paper's profile for that printer makes the most sense.

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(JPEG) Formally, the EXIF and JFIF standards are incompatible. This is because both specify that their particular application segment (APP0 for JFIF, APP1 for Exif) must be the first in the image file. In practice, many programs and digital cameras produce files with both application segments included. This will not affect the image decoding for most decoders, but poorly designed JFIF or Exif parsers may not recognize the file properly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format#Exif_comparison)
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*** Marker: SOI (xFFD8) ***
OFFSET: 0x00000000
*** Marker: APP0 (xFFE0) ***
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OFFSET: 0x00000000
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[YResolution ] = 720000/10000
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