Prints made by LightRoom to dark, made by Windows viewer Ok

I have noticed that the colours of photos, made by using the print option from LightRoom, are much to dark and dull.
And before anyone start thinking of using the right color profile for the printer, read the line below:
When the same picture is opened in the default viewer of Windows Vista and print is pressed, the colours do match the colours of the screen. (± 5%)
- The used picture is a non adjusted RAW picture made by an EOS 5D and TIFF a printer file which is used to calibrate the printer.
- LightRoom version 1.2 (Problem also noticed in 1.0 and 1.1)
- In LightRoom all options to adjust the picture are set to Off
- LightRoom is the colour correction set to be handled by the printer driver
- The printer driver is set to ICM, NO colour correction
- The monitor is calibrated.
- Printer = Epson R2400
So when the picture is printed by LightRoom the colours are much to dark and dull, and when using the simple Windows viewer, the colours of the photos are printed correctly.
Anyone have a suggestions??
Thanks in advantage
Marco

Hello.
I am happy as a child, finally seems to have found a solution on the "dull colors" problem at least for my LR 1.2.
My printouts from my PC (Vista based) LR to my HP all-in-one (network connected) was a disaster. Dark muddy colors. General recomendation was to use "managed by application" option in LR. As no profiles were installed, available from the install CD or from HP I more or less gave up.
I borrowed a laptop (XP) and installed LR and installed drivers for my HP printer. Voila! Fine printouts, not like the ones I get from my Vista based LR. I tried to select "Profile other" (=managed by application) option and suddenly found ICC profiles for my HP printer. I did a test printout using "managed by application" selecting appropriate profiles, with same good result. Looked in Windows/System32.. catalog and found the HP printer profiles. Looked in my Vista and found other profiles but noone for the HP printer.
So, for some reason the HP installation program did not managed to install profiles correctly in Vista. So I copied the profiles from XP to Vista and mapped them in the Vista color management tool to the printer. Now I can select the files in Profile others (=managed by application) and get acceptable prints. After changeing the option in the printer driver to "Managed by application" instead of using Prophoto the result was even better (just as stated in the manual).
Hope this help some of you to solve the "dull color" problem. If anyone of you need profiles for HP 3210 all-in-one pls give me a hint and I will send the profiles to you. If you have suggestions for profile for handling matte paper on HP 3210 I am interested to hear from you.
Good luck.
//Sten

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