Printing from photoshop, colors seem too dark

We are printing photos and/or scans of my wife's paintings as well as some of her photography. Using a canon ip4820 and a Red river satin paper (or canvas paper) and the corresponding recommendation from Red river including their icc profile for the specific paper. While the color profile helped slightly, we still cna't seem to get true reproduction. I realize monitor calibration and other things will effect the way we see the photo, but we've viewed the photos on various screens and on the canon t2i lcd screen as well as comparing to the original painting and the prints always look too dark and in some cases the yellows come out too orange. This is all with new canon ink and a new printer. We always have to brighten the images but not being photoshop pros we are not sure if that is the correct thing to do or if there is some other correction or maybe its just that the ip4820 isn't cable of reproduction to that level.
Are there some settings we are missing?
thanks for any ideas.

3 suggestions:
Be sure that you have the latest drivers for your printer
Have the printer manage colors, not Elements. Certainly not both!
Reduce the brightness settings on your monitor, esp. while enhancing with PSE

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