Printing Grrr

Why does the tarmac in my displayed images appear grey yet when I print it comes out with a pink hue. It's something to do with profiles but which one of the 400 do I choose?
Any why does it not just print whats on the screen.
Someone's going to mention calibration........ how?

Sorry if I sound like I'm ranting but I have a load of prints to do for the champions at the kart track and I'm a bit stressed

I was having some probs with printing and some one said to print direct from photoshop using it,s settings rather than the printer settings and it worked. But i do not know much about printing.

Not an expert in printing,but try setting let Computer manage colours
it should be in your printer set-up.

I have had this problem before.

I have tried both printer managed then Photoshop managed and both came out with very, very little difference. Still a magenta hue to the greys.

The magenta hue can be corrected by reducing magenta in the printer software. I use -7 magenta for my Epson printers, which is just about right.

I don't suppose it could be anything as simple as a clogged jet on your printer? Might be worth trying the test print utility that's found on most printers. What are the colours like if you print a web page containing some full-colour photos? For what it's worth, I leave colour management turned off in my software (Serif PhotoPlus) and let my Epson printer sort things out. The results are pretty well spot-on. I doubt if monitor calibration is the issue. Good luck.

Al