Document printing wrong colors

These are the steps I followed:1.  drew some pictures on regular paper with colored pencils.2.  scanned the document into the printer.3.  opened the document with Photo Viewer4.  the colors on the screen  looked true to my drawing5.  selected Print from the Menu6.  the Print Preview colors looked true to my drawing7.  the colors on the printed page were NOT true to my drawing:    - the pink colors were true, but the orange printed as dark pink    - the blue colors were true, but the green printed as blue    - the yellow printed as white8. I also opened with Paint and had the same results. I have not changed any settings on the printer.  My old HP printed this drawing fine. This is for my business so I need the colors to be true.  

Thank you for your reply. My issue is not one with comparing the color on the monitor with the printed document....I could care less what it looks like on the monitor, so I don't think calibrating my monitor will help the printed document look any better. And, regardless, it looks fine on the monitor. My issue is that the printed document is not the same color as the original document which I scanned in.If I use a colored pencil to draw a picture in orange on a piece of paper, then scan the picture that I drew in orange, I want it to print as orange, not pink. The colors are incorrect no matter what software I use to open the document & print it:  opening with Windows Photo Viewer, opening with Paint, opening with Picasa, etc. I do not understand your comment " I would like you to photocopy the original picture on the Envy 5530".How do I photocopy a document? (I searched the user guide for that term and did not find it.)  How is that different from scanning the document? Why would the printed document look different by photocopying vs. scanning? I am a quality analyst for a software company so I know a little about diagnosing a problem.  One other step I took was to print a picture that I had drawn  and scanned in with my OLD printer/scanner, and it also printed incorrectly. So I think it is some settings in the printer that are causing it. My OLD printer did not have the Color Management feature and it printed correctly.  I do not understand the write-up on the Color Management feature; never-the-less, I have not change anything from the default settings that it was delivered with.  So if the problem is the Color Management feature, then I need to know how to set it for the colors to look exactly like the colors on the document thatI scanned in.  I took a picture of both with my phone and tried to insert to this message so you could see the difference, but the files are too large.

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