CS4, Epson 2400 printer, Magiclee canvas

I cannot make prints come out properly. They look faded. I downloaded and installed the Magiclee icc profile, but am unable to really figure out which paper on the drop down list fits this profile. The icc profile says Premier Presentation Paper Matte, but that doesn't help. Epson and Microsoft are no help. Please help us!
Thank you.

First, a brief background. I have had excellent results with Photoshop CS4, V4 profiles and Apple OS 10.6.2
with an Epson 3800 for the 1st month after installing 10.6.2 then suddenly, a week ago, gray backgrounds appeared.
I had been hearing about color synch bug issues for some time but had not experienced any until then. I print with both Canon & Epson large format printers. My Canon has a Photoshop Print Plug- in that bypasses the problem. Of course, that doesn't help the Epson. I spoke with Scott Martin at On_Sight ( a color management consultant ) and he made several suggestions one of which worked well for me. I stayed with the newer V4 profiles.
( Mac ) : go to Photoshop's Edit > Convert to profile to convert an image to your printer's profile using Perceptual and Black Point Compensation. Then print as you normally would with "Let Photoshop Determine colors" again with the printer's profile selected in the PS dialog box. This worked fine.
Another excellent suggestion Scott had was to print from Lightroom ( for those who use it ) with the cell size set exactly to the image size. Again - no gray. This was with Epson 3800, Adobe CS4, Apple 10.6.2 and V4 profiles.
Here is another tip from Scott ( http://www.on-sight.com )
for an Epson user this week : select the "Epson Color Controls" button as illustrated. Sometimes it's grayed out but when it's available, it allows us to bypass ColorSync.

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Message was edited by: blair.shine

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