PDF Color profile printing issue

Hello,
I have a wierd and very enoying behaviour.. and after a lot of thinking I just can't find the answer :
I regulary create brochures and deliver them in PDF. When I print with Acrobat PRO 8.1.3 from my Laptop (OS 10.5.8) using the Generic CMYK Color Profil I get accurate results on a RICOH 5560/3320. When I print the same PDF from my desktop MacPro Acrobat 8.2.2 and OS 10.5.8 I get very grey looking colors and the print is way too saturated in the blacks. When I converts the colour space to the Ricoh-Profile colours it's almost fine.
I have checked the prefs and the Profil settings, they at identical. The PDF is not changed in any way between prints.
Any ideas of what's going on?
Thx,
/Max

Well your "feeling" was right. I did some more testing which took some time. It was rather boring, but at the same time I understand better now. To manage the colour profile there is the ColorSync/Printer select switch in the Adobe print interface and another three possible settings in the printer driver (a Ricoh 5560, in my case). So that is where I need to set things up more consistently.
The latest driver problem is,that on the machine from a colleague the print margins are not the same as on my machine...printing from that machine the image is beeing cropped. But I guess that is another thread...
Thanks for your help!

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