This is somewhat of a common problem. All the suggestions above are worth checking out. On the internet and from some photo lab companies are what are called "TEST PRINTS". These usually have a variety of people with different skin tones, gray cards, and color checkers -- basically a "standard" scan/print. First, I would download a Test Print jpeg file. Take a look at it on your monitor. Do the people and color checkers look OK/natural? If the monitor looks OK then make a print using the software for the printer. Is the print close? What's wrong? What color is in excess -- what color is missing? If you have a printer with 4 or more ink tanks is an ink tank color missing? In other words, are all the ink tanks putting ink on the paper and how does the test print look? From here -- start printing your scan and see how it looks. Now you've tested the monitor, the ink carts, the printer and the printer software. Your are still at the start -- but it is a start and you're headed in the right direction.

There are also printer calibrators, that analyze a scan of a print of a color test page and match the output of the printer with what is seen on a calibrated monitor.

The brute force way to do this is to adjust the image on the monitor with your graphics program and make test prints until the print looks as you would like it to be. Then you take each image you want to print, make a copy and adjust the image for a similar look so that the printer output is close to what you see on the monitor viewing the original file.