Printing correctly in Aperture and too dark in everything else.

New to photography and purchased LightRoom 2 on a friends recommendation. I really like the program. However, no matter what I tried it printed too dark. All sorts of profiles, printer driver color mangement yes/no and while I could get just a slight raise in brightness and color, it was no where near acceptable.
Did a trial on Elements and Aperture. Elements also printed dark which shouldn't be surprising both Adobe.
Last and what proved to be far from least is Aperture. While it may not have the features of the Adobe gear at least it prints right. I can now get a very nice print with my Epson 4880 with one of the built in profiles (as it should be in my opinion).
I understand the need for a proper ICC profile for best results but it seems to me you should at least get a reasonable foundation to work with. I just could not get good color saturation or proper brightness level no matter what I did. From what I read on the net I'm not the only one. Interesting how Adobe must work extremely well with millions of other Macs and PC's but not mine.

I'm no expert in color management
An expert in colour management engineeri can fail in configuring any two ICC-enabled applications for compatible assumptions. Understanding the architecture is one thing and understanding the current conditions for configuration are another.
In such situations as this, the best bet is to ask the Apple ColorSync Users List.
/hh

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