Epson R1800 issue

[DD3]

I have an Epson R1800 that I have been using for printing photos for maybe 3years now. The prints had been great until about 3 months ago. Now everything I print is off on the color and either too dark or too light. I work out of CS4. It doesn't matter if I use photoshop or printer for managing the color-same results. I even went out and spent the money on ColorMunki to callibrate my monitor and my printer. It didn't help. Now I'm wondering if I should have put that money on a new printer. I have an old HP printer connected to my computer that I print documents on. I tried printing a couple of pictures on it and the color and brightness looked ok. So I figure it is either the Epson printer or I have messed up the settings somehow. Any ideas?

[PIC]

Go to Epson.com and do the 1800 self help and chat with their techs.
I had similar problems with 2200 and it appears problems are now gone
after a few nozzle cleans.

[rebardwg]

have you changed any of your hardware prior to this happening?

Your monitor, video card and computer all speak different languages. Somewhere in there, info is not getting translated correctly.

You may need to get a printer profile to get your colors back on track.

I have the R1900 and the colors were always wayy off or too dark. The printer fixed it flawlessly.

[venchka]

Did you change paper? Changing paper can ruin your prints in a heartbeat.

[DD3]

Nope, haven't changed paper. We called Epson Support like EL suggested. They couldn't figure out the issue with an email so they had us call. They had my husband print a picture on the Epson via the printing program on the HP instead of going through Photoshop CS4. It printed beautifully. So I'm clueless. I can print through Photoshop to my plain ole HP printer and the prints look ok but if I tried to print through Photoshop to my Epson the prints were horrid. Right now it is a moot point as my desktop crashed (Thank God for carbonite). We had been planning on buying a new desk top anyway, just hoped to wait till after Thanksgiving for the sales. I guess when I get the new computer (which BTW should be awesome-HP e9280T,Intel R core TM i7-950 processor-3.0 GHz, 12 GB DDR3 1066 MHz SDRAM, 2 TB 7200rpm) I'll try and figure it out. Thanks for everyone's help

[Fireball]

Hmmm...I've had an R1800 for a few years also and to get my colors as close as possible to matching what I see in PSE6, on the print page I choose "Printer manages color" and "relative colormetric" and under printer preferences, I go to the advanced screen and choose Adobe RGB under the color controls and sometimes up the brightness and saturation a bit.