printing accurate colors made in photoshop?

Trying to do a homework assignment for a color theory class, so the colors need to be right... just normal primary and secondary colors. I just want to print on a nice sheet of heavier paper, probably on a printer from Kinkos.

With the color settings I have on, the colors on my screen don't look quite right... My settings are:

color profile - sheetfed Uncoated v2
color libray - Pantone solid uncoated

Am I even on the right track? Any suggestions on what settings I should be using?

I have just read your question & there is a lot more to getting the printout to match what you see on screen, 1st is your monitor properly calibrated? if not start with calibrating your screen.

i have not got much time at present but i will post later on how you should set up when printing. providing no one else beats me to it.

Ok so this may help, first of all colour management is complicated & therefore i will only be going into the basics as unfortunately i do not have the time for a full run down, i hope i get it right & apologies for anything i do not put forward, if there is anyone who wants to add to this or even say i would do this instead please do.

So after calibrating your monitor, go to edit colour settings & in the box do the following:

Settings (depending on where you are in the world you will need to alter this to the correct setting i.e. i use europe prepress 2 as i am in europe.

Next: RGB to either SRGB or Adobe RGB 1998

Next: CMYK to coated FOGRA27 Gray Dot Grain 15% Spot Dot Grain 15%

Next: Color Management Policies, CMYK & Gray RGB all to Preserve Embedded Profiles.

Tick Use black point compensation & use Dither 8 bit

Also tick in Color management, ask when opening - pasting - missing profiles when opening

when printing make sure your paper matches the correct profile & always let P/S manage the colours not your printer.

when printing it is best that your image is 300dpi for best results

i hope this helps, i know i may have missed something.

i hope