Thank you David.  I saw that earlier today and am intrigued to hear what he has to say.  I emailed him and waiting for a response.  I'll be reprofiling in the morning and will see if that changes anything.

hmmm I can see the vast difference.  This is really perplexing. I'm not sure what to change as my printer settings have always been off as far as colour management goes.  I will try re profiling again tomorrow.  I wish I had a log of everything so I could check back.  I'll make note of everything that I try tomorrow.  Is there an issue with having the printer manage the colour? I'm sure I sound quite stupid right now...

Here is how I create my profiles (I could be screwing up)
1.Set printer settings to that specified by the manufacturer for given substrate
2. Bring my test swatch sheet into Qimage and place on canvas area.
3. Turn colour correction off in the printer and in Qimage.  My monitor profile stays on though (in the box above printer profile)
4. Leave interpolation on in Qimage as that is how I print.
5. Print test swatches and let the sheet over night (I've heard ink colours change when drying)
6. Scan the 225 swatches with the spectrometer by spyder using their program.
 
When I go to print the file:
1. Put the image on the canvas.
2. Adjust media settings to those used for creating the profile.
3. Turn printer colour management off
4. Load the printer icc into Qimage.
5. Leave the interpolation at vector and max resolution.

This is what I was doing before I had the issues.  I'll admit I'm new to the printing game and certainly have a lot to learn.

The issue is that it worked before.   I have profiled multiple substrates before with the spyder 3.  I just don't want to buy a new spyder and have the same issue.  I will try emailing spyder.

Would a poor black point on the profile cause an issue for other files though?  Which software do you use to generate profiles for media.

I'm not seeing results that are as extreme as that.  I tried  resetting printer and program settings but that did not improve things.  I haven't updated my printer drivers since I've installed the printer.  If the profile was the issue why would Qimage print the file in the past without an issue?  That is the most confusing part for me.

I am currently using Qimage Lite and an issue has popped out of nowhere.  Qimage has stopped reading my icm files correctly.  I get really weird posterization when printing from Qimage when I let the program manage the colour.  If I let the printer manage the colour then the prints are fine.  Also, if I print from photoshop with photoshop managaing the colour the images print normally.  Here is a link to the whole discussion on LL.  It was suggested that I post here as well.  http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=56948.0