Colour assurance when using printing house

I have had problems with colour accuracy when using a printing house to make prints bigger than the A3 that I can manage on my Photo 1290 although ones I have printed have been correct. Would a colour chart and grey step wedge on a border help the printing house to adjust colours to be correct? Or is the fault mine, I have had no comments indicating colour problems from the stock libraries that I have supplied with digital files?
Advice would be appreciated on a) how to correct the problem if I am at fault or b) how to ensure the grey scale and colour patches conform to a standard, because if the fault is mine then the scales could also be wrong.
I'm using Mac Leopard, photoshop CS3.

"I have had problems with colour accuracy when using a printing house to make prints bigger than the A3 that I can manage on my Photo 1290 although ones I have printed have been correct."
What exactly are you seeing that is causing your concern?
" Would a colour chart and grey step wedge on a border help the printing house to adjust colours to be correct? Or is the fault mine, I have had no comments indicating colour problems from the stock libraries that I have supplied with digital files?"
A color chart would do you little good. A gray step could tell you if their process is properly gray balanced and linearized. I don't know which printing service you are using, but most have an automatic assumption that you are feeding sRGB, kind of a lowest common denominator. The best thing to do, if you have access to the capability, is, of course, to make your own custom profile of their printer, but you'll still be subject to their process control - y'know - variabilities in printer calibration and chemical process stability.
Does the vendor you are dealing with actually have a printer profile you can download and use or do they just tell you to send the file in. Are there any guidelines from them at all?
You might consider buying a larger, newer Epson and bringing it all in house.

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