Photos are printing too dark

Hi, I use Aperture 2.1.4 to edit my photos and my imac is running OSX 10.6. I have recently purchased an EPSON Artisan 730 and am not sure what I am doing wrong but my photos are printing darker than they appear on the screen.
The setting in Aperture are
Paper size: 10x15cm
Orientation: landscape
Colorsync profile: PX830 730 Artisan837 730 Epson glossy
Black point compensation not ticked
gamma: 1.0
sharpen amount: 0
sharpen radius: 0
scale to: fill entire page
print resolution: use best dpi ticked
Please can you offer any suggestions or point me in the right direction.
Thanks

Léonie kindly asked me to add to your thread. Other than the links you'll find in the post of mine to which Léonie already linked (I don't sense that you've read them), I can make the strong suggestion that you upgrade Aperture to the current version (and upgrade to 10.6.8 or 10.7.x, too). Apple has been steadily working on color and luminance fidelity (it's a difficult problem), and has made significant changes to the rendering of Images in the OS and in Aperture.
It is odd that you made no changes in the software calibration process. Redo it?
Here are some general considerations to be aware of:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17216135#17216135
And an even shorter summary here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17539316#17539316
Don't be overly discouraged by the complexity of the topic. With some work you should be able to get reliably close. Whether "close" is close enough is for you to say.
I print (to Epson Printers, but that shouldn't matter) with "Rendering Intent" set to "Perceptual", and "Black Point compensation" checked. The second is perhaps impossible to ascertain, but the first should change the luminance distribution visibly (depends on the photo). These, however, are refinements. You have to get "close" first.
Here is the first thing to check after confirming that your printer is working properly (sorry for quoting myself):
The quick answer -- now that you've got this far -- is set your monitor brightness to something that appears gray rather than light. This is probably close to the middle of the available range, and two or three steps lower than you might chose for comfortable viewing. Implicit in that is that what is best for editing photos is often different from what is best for doing other work on a computer.
Post back with questions.

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