Printer colors wrong,how to repair it?

i got a new epson r1800 photoprinter 10 month ago,
some weeks ago all printings became a very blue color,
after changing an empty ink cartridge.
to verify, if i have to repair my printer,
i installed it and printed from a windows xp system ,
and there all printings are well, colors are ok.
i thought,maybe there have been somehow configurationchanges.
to get the right and fresh configuration, i had before,
when the printer worked well,
i tried to install the driver completely new on my mac,
but nothing changed.
perhaps it is not enough to delete the printer in the
print&fax window,
because there comes a message while installing the driver new,
that the driver is already on the harddisk.
how to delete completely all my old printerinstallations
i made before?
--or what do you think is the problem?

Hi Andreas,
Yes, there will be colour profiles on the system that were either added by the driver installation or there as part of the OS X installation. You can open the ColorSync utility (Applications > Utilities), click on Devices. Expand the Printers folder and select the Epson folder. Here you will see the profiles available for the printer and where they are located. Looking at my Mac, the OS X provided ICC profiles are located in /Library/Printers/Epson/InkJetPrinter/ICCProfiles. There is a good chance that your driver installer added its profiles here and the one you are using has a problem.
Now, using the ColorSync Utility > Profile First Aid, you could try to Repair the installed profiles. This may help but it may not. If it doesn't them what I would do is delete the entire Epson folder (you can always re-add the included drivers if you have to) and delete the R1800's installer package, located in /Library/Receipts. Then restart the Mac and install the latest driver you can find for the R1800 on the Epson web site. Hopefully this should resolve the blue prints.
Regards,
Paul

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