My CMYK color codes seem to be off when I print from Illustrator. What could be causing this?

I have been using CMYK codes to print in Illustrator. For some reason, the colors are now printing very dark and a bit off - (ex: Royal blue 100.51.0.0 is printing almost like a violet. It's dark and kind of purple.) I'm printing on a Xerox Phaser 6500 and spoke to their support to make sure that the settings were correct. What should the settings be to ensure that I haven't changed something accidentally or caused this problem?

Are you using a RIP with that Phaser? Or, are you using the Phaser driver? Have you done any Adobe updates recently? What changed since the last time you achieved accurate CMYK prints? What OS are you using? What happens when you print a PDF of the file? Have you tried printing that CMYK combination in other apps? There are a ton of variables that could affect prints. Have you checked the inks? Try running a check on the printer using its utilities.

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Start with this comprehensive troubleshooting article:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521
Look at this one for possible solutions:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
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Hi there,
First of all it isn't a unique problem, my colleague has the exact same issue. I'm using Windows 8, he is using OSX 10.9.4 - Mavericks.
So the problem is, the color what the object has is not the same as color picker says.
To reproduce the problem. Create a blank CMYK document. Create a black CMYK: 0,0,0,100 rectangle. Click on the rectangle then double click on the fill color.
http://tinypic.com/r/zsuvtg/8
As you can see on this picture it says that is has a Purple CMYK: 60,90,0,0 color. Then click OK and suddenly your black rectangle will go going to turn into purple.
So at this point I cannot trust on the CMYK color picker because it gives me the wrong code, so basically I'm unable to work with this software anymore. Thankfully I didn't uninstalled the older version of CC where it works perfectly.
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I don't normally chime in as it is not effective, but this might get things going.
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It should be reported here: (if I report it nothing will happen so it is up to you guys to do the reporting or it will remain as such.
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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