Well, I have been trying from bothe Illustrator and Photoshop CS. I took a photo of a kitchen, converted it to CMYK using US Web Coated SWOP (that's the standard the finished design will be printed with), brought the photo into the same color space in Illustrator, completed the design, used the correct color management profile for the paper I'm using, turned off color correction in the driver software, printed, and BARF, it puked all over the paper.
So, I then brought the entire design into Photoshop as a TIFF, printed with preview, went through all the same steps, looked at a preview (looked dead on accurate), printed, and, this time, it looked even worse.
I finally played with the Epson color management, tweaked the brightness and contrast, and got a halfway descent print. I was ready to dance. So, I printed another page with a photo of the same kitchen, using the same settings, and I may as well have used the paper to blow my nose, cuz it was a snot-colored yellow in the highlights. I checked all the inks, etc, and I now have no idea what the flip happened.
I even made sure the Gamma was set correctly.
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