Printing from Aperture is not that good. Maybe help needed

Hi,
I'm trying to print from Aperture and I can't get a decent print to save my life. I end up sending over to Photoshop where the print comes out looking like it should. (FYI, I am very experienced with printing and calibration and color management, BTW). I can't figure out what is happening wrong. I've got all the settings correct and still can't manage a good print; they come out flat (lacking saturated colors) and much darker than the screen.
I'm running Leopard 10.5.2 and an Epson 2200.
What I don't understand is why PS is doing such a good job at printing and Aperture is not.
Any advice is appreciated.
Antonio

The closest I could get to a reasonable print is to wack up gamma to at least 1.2 But to be frank I got seriously peed off with the effort and cost of ink that its cost me trying to get something reasonable. So in short I have given up trying to print from aperture.
FWIW I have used aperture with:
Epson 360
Canon ip3000
Canon ip4000
Canon IP4000r
HP All in One
HP 1280
I have owned all these and for my love of apple blamed the first three printers for being rubbish printers. but after 6 printers, sorry there is only one place to blame now.
Luckily printing from other programmes is not too difficult so I don't lose too much sleep over it.

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