Pantone Huey and Pixma 8500

I recently purchased a Pantone Huey to calibrate my Gateway monitor in order to print better photos on my Pixma 8500. The prints still aren't coming out right when I print using Canon Easy-Photo Print or Lightroom. My printer color management profile is set at automatic to Huey FPD 181054895. The monitor's color management profile is also set at Huey FPD 181054895. The prints look nothing like what the one on the monitor looks like; they're a bit dark, even dull looking. Lightroom really improved the look of the picture, yet I'm not seeing in the print.

Am I doing something wrong? What is the best way to set up a calibrated monitor and a Pixma printer? Both instruction manuals don't have much to say about color profiles.

Thanks in advance.

You'll get a better response over in the the Post Processing forum section.

Don't set you printer profile to the monitor profile. That's your problem.

I've a number of pixma printers. My wife makored in colour in art school She has some magic eye. She always chooses the Ilford printer profiles as the best.

You select a printer profile to match the paper, not the screen.

Thanks. I've switched my question to the correct section. Thanks for the tip.