Prints don't match screen

I have an HP Photosmart C3180 All-in-one printer and I am having trouble getting my printouts looking like what I see on my screen. At the moment I am trying to print a Comic Life comic but the problem is not limited to any one app. When I print the document, it looks slightly washed out and some of the colors are rather off.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

First, its impossible to get prints to match a native screen because the screen is RGB and printer CYMK and the gamuts are not an exact match and reflected prints have less contrast than a glowing screen. What the process of color management does is translate the the colors in the RGB document into the nearest equivalent the printer can print. Applications like Photoshop include a soft proofing function which allows a printer profile to be applied to the screen image to simulate, to the extent possible on screen how the print will differ from the screen. There is an "out of gamut" warning to show which colors in the screen image exceed the color gamut the printer can produce. Critical editing should be done in soft proofing mode and on the basis of what you see in test prints.
When you let the printer manage color it takes the image working space you selected in Photoshop and converts the color values to the closest the printer can reproduce most of the colors C+M ink can't reproduce the rich saturated colors R+B on screen can so you'll always see shifts in saturated blues and purples. The matching of file to print is controlled by the ink / paper profile you select in the print dialog. That tells the printer driver what profile to apply when doing the translations.
When you tell Photoshop or another application to manage colors the printer must be told not to manage color. If you don't do that the translation gets done twice, first by Photoshop then a second time by the printer. That's what is happening if you select Photoshop manages color and a ink/paper profile. If you select "photoshop manages color" and your working space profile (e.g., sRGB) it works because the printer is getting the same thing it would when it manages color.
Leopard changed most of the printer drivers. The change isn't apparent because most of the drivers where built-into both Tiger and Leopard. But what I discovered is that the new Leopard driver eliminated my ability to turn off the printer driver for my HP9760 when printing from CD3 and other applications. I can still print OK using by letting the printer manage color, but it would prevent the use of any custom profiles created for non-HP papers.

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