Printing Black squares

Hi, Every time I try and print a photo in Aperture 2.1 to my Epson colour laser printer all I get is a black square the size of the photo, with the crop marks. I never had this problem in Aperture 1.xx. I've tried exporting the image to a pdf and printing that, but I get the same thing. If I export the photo to photoshop, it prints fine. I've tested this with a few photos, both colour and black/white.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

G'day Appletog, I haven't resolved the issue. I tested it on my inkjet Epson and all printed fine so I put down to an incompatibility with the Aculaser. That being said, if you have had joy printing with your Aculaser, I might give it another go. I had created a new user account and tried printing from it, but no luck. I've even tried dumping the PrintPresets.plist for Aperture without any luck. At present time I'm exporting or opening my pics in Photoshop and printing from it.

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