schew, my repeated feeling that you are not paying attention and are thus not helping but the opposite is coming from fact that you repeatedly ask me questions about things I already said. You say it would be useful to know what printer when in my very first post I said it's Epson 3880. You still imply I didn't say what apps when I did say it is number of apps, including Photoshop Elements, QPrint and QuickView. You say I didn't say are images from RAW or JPG or scans from film when I more than once said they are JPG straight out of camera.
You don't see what you are doing as something that is throwing wrenches in effort to get help and would be frustrating anybody?
Jeff Schewe (sic] is the foremost expert on printing on this forum (or else), and I would not dismiss his attempts to help as "throwing wrenches" so easily.
What Jeff is saying when asking for EXACT STEPS is, sorry for the pun, exactly that: you need to describe
a single chain of events, from capture to print. Throwing everything in the equation at the same time, e.g., various cameras, various applications, etc. is raising the number of possible combinations to an unacceptable level. This thread already has close to 60 posts, so forgive us for not searching through every post to find what you said. So, give us one single chain of events to work with: camera brand X, jpeg settings Y, color space in camera Z, application A, setting in printer driver B (even better, a screen shot of it), computer C, operating system D, OS version E, etc., etc. I might have missed some, or included something superfluous, but you get the point.