Printing from Illustrator does not match Photoshop

I have CS3. The colorsuite is matched across all platforms so colour profiles are all the same.
I print pure cmyk colours in a document, so one square is cyan, another magenta and so on.
When I print from photoshop, it prints the colours correct. Each colour is printed from each printers colour cartridge directly. But when I print from Illustrator, its not printing purely. The colours are darker and have mixed colours under a magnifier.
Ive tested on different printers and with colour management off on their drivers so should use adobes.
Any ideas why Illustrator is coming out muddier? Many thanks in advance.

Yes the mode is definately CMYK in photoshop. See the images attached of scanned closeup of the print out of yellow.
Yellow below is how it looks when printing from Illustrator and Acrobat. You can see its added dots to it.
Yellow below is from Photoshop. You can see its pure yellow which is what I want.
Edit: Just tried Overprint: Simulate in Acrobat. No change.
Edit2: "I would like to know what's the definition of "correct"?" For a start Magenta looks like a dark red. Cyan is blue but a dark shade of it.

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> current source on the OpenLDAP site is from 2008. Consequently, we don't
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Edited by: 972551 on Nov 21, 2012 12:18 PM
Edited by: sabre150 on Nov 21, 2012 11:06 PM
Moderator action : added [code ] tags to format properly. In future please add them yourself.

>
I have a problem where the MD5 value from DBMS_CRYPTO does not match the hash value from 3rd party MD5 free tool (MD5 Checksum Calculator 0.0.5.58 or WinMD5Free v1.20) and also the MD5 hash value calculated by an ingestion tool where I am transferring files to. The MD5 hash value that the ingestion tool calculates is the same as the 3rd party MD5 free tools I have.
I found a thread on this forum that also had a similar issue so I copy/paste the java functions.
>
And in that thread (Re: MD5 HASH computed from DBMS_CRYPTO does not match .NET MD5 I provided the reason why DBMS_CRYPTO may not match hashes produced by other methodologies.
I have no idea why you copied and posted all of that Java code the other poster and I provided since code has NOTHING to do with the problem you say you are having. Thte other poster's question was how to write Java code that would produce the same result as DBMS_CRYPTO.
You said your problem was understanding why DBMS_CRYPTO 'does not match the hash value from 3rd party MD5 free tool ...'. and I answered that in the other forum.
>
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l_checksum_md5 varchar2(2000);
l_checksum_md5_utf_8 varchar2(2000);
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Thank You in advance
Don
Edited by: 972551 on Nov 21, 2012 12:45 PM

Thanks for the reply but my syntax is correct.
t_checksum := lower(RAWTOHEX(dbms_crypto.hash(src=>l_clob,typ=>dbms_crypto.hash_md5)));
The typ argument tells dbms_crypto what type of hash value to produce.
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Table 24-3 DBMS_CRYPTO Cryptographic Hash Functions
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HASH_MD4 Produces a 128-bit hash, or message digest of the input message
HASH_MD5 Also produces a 128-bit hash, but is more complex than MD4
HASH_SH1 Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA). Produces a 160-bit hash.
for further details see: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14258/d_crypto.htm#i1002022
Edited by: 972551 on Nov 21, 2012 12:46 PM

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By preview, do you mean the Preview button on the print dialogue box at the bottom left next the the PDF button? I'm guessing yes since I can produce the same kind of result. It's a bit hard to explain, but I'll try.
I took a simple grayscale image and made it RGB. I then did the same thing you did. Left image is Photoshop handling color for an Epson Stylus Pro 4000, using a profile I made for a DuPont paper. Then clicking the Preview button when the print dialogue comes up. Right image is letting the printer handle color and clicking Preview. The result is below.
Believe it or not, there's nothing wrong. Photoshop (more accurately, ColorSync) is showing you what it had to do to the pixel color values to adjust for how the inks perform on the chosen paper. The end result, with proper profiles, is that the printed image looks like what you see in Photoshop regardless of how it shows in Preview mode. The Epson driver doesn't make this visible cue even though you've turned ColorSync on there, so it simply shows you the same thing you see in Photoshop, even though it's making the same adjustment to the pixel color values.
You should get essentially the same final output no matter which way you print the image.

Printing from Illustrator does not match Photoshop

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