Prints coming out wrong color.

I keep trying to print a gray print and it keeps coming out with heavy red tones.   I cleaned the print heads and even changed some out.  
Not sure what to do,  but at this rate im wasting lots of material.  
Any help, would be great.   

This is not a calibration issue. I work on an Eizo Monitor and calibrate it regularly.  I actually printed the image thru a different computer and it printed fine. So not sure why one G5 Mac would not print it well but the other did. But so far problem solved for imediate future.

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