Why do my colors print dark on my printer but display much brighter on my screen?

I'm on Adobe CC and use a PC that runs Windows 7. I noticed once we updated to Adobe CC the colors on my monitor are much richer but are actually much darker and muddy when I send the files to printer. This is especially evident in Illustrator. I even used a CMYK Pantone color for accuracy (which was a color of wine) but displayed magenta in Illustrator! Then I thought, maybe it was my NVIDIA Control Panel. So I adjusted my desktop color settings to match the colors I was going for but while that somewhat helped I knew it wasn't the answer when I noticed that the websites I went were not displaying the correct colors because they were hard to read. I am stuck and have no idea what to do. Can anyone help?

Downgrade to previous CS where color was color. Seriously, if you were getting correct color on output and the color appeared correctly on your monitor before you updated, then there's where the problem is. The update.

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