PC prints to Epson 7800 good from CS5- bad from Lightroom

I run a small govt photolab.  I am on a network running the whole CS5 suite.  Printing from photshop using the default setting everying comes out roughly the way it looks on the screen.
Printing from Lightroom the colors are way off, or they're flat.  I've tried different, including one from the paper manufacturere (Ilford)  No luck.
We are not very sophisticated here.  This is not fine art printing and we don't use any kind of calibration. But when i  had a Mac everything went from the screen to the print accuratly.
I've tried converting to JPEG first along with a few other random efforts, but I'm not making any progress.
Thanks
Dave

A few questions (or skip to the para below):
Do you start with jpeg or raw?  If jpeg, what colour space?
What working space is set in Photoshop - is it sRGB?
Are your monitors colour-managed (calibrated and profiled with hardware colorimiters)?
Are your printers capable of colour management - do they take account of the profile of the image being printed - or alternatively do you colour-manage from Lightroom and Photoshop, and have the driver set to be colour management aware but also set so that the driver knows that the program is doing the colour management?
If you're not sure of the answers to these questions, then try this: print from Lightroom, but in the Color Management panel (bottom right of print module) set the profile to sRGB (or sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or similar).  Does that make a difference?  Does it now print images the same as Photoshop?
If setting a profile of sRGB IEC... makes a difference, then the reason for the problems is probably that the printer doesn't recognise image profiles (or has colour-management turned off).  Lightroom always uses ProPhoto colour space as its Working Space.  If you print and select the profile as "managed by printer", then Lightroom sends the image to the printer in ProPhoto colour space.  If the printer can't colour manage (doesn't recognise and act on embedded profiles) then ProPhoto images will look very flat and desaturated.
If it looks OK in Photoshop, I'm guessing you've got the Working Space set to sRGB (Edit menu, color settings, and top line in the "Working Spaces" box near the top of the dialogue). 
If printing in LR using sRGB profile fixes the problem, then job done, but it also suggests you might not be using colour management in the printers, so you might do better with colour-mangement in the printers and appropriate profiles and calibrated and profiled monitors. 
PS - just noticed you're using Epson 7800 printers which I'm sure are capable of colour-management, but I guess you may not be using colour-management (that is, not specifying a printer profile and enabling colour-management, which defaults off in Epson printers).

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