Color Help with Phaser 7760 - PLEASE!

I am using MS Publisher 2010 (also have and use 2000 and 2003) and a xerox Phaser 7760 printer. I am not able to print colors accurately from Publisher. I spoke to xerox tech support and they said that Publisher is changing the color values to RGB. How does the printer interpret color - in rgb or cmyk? Should I be producing the document in cmyk color? Do I need to save the photos as cmyk color in Photoshop first? And how can I get the printer to accurately print the color of photos that are in the Publisher file? I am creating Real Estate Factsheets with many pictures and have tried embedding the photos; linking the photos; creating the document in Indesign and printing; creating a pdf and printing that, etc - I get varied results, but not CORRECT results and it is becoming extremely frustrating. I also sometimes send out documents for print and trying to get a proof of what it will look like from my printer is impossible!! Anyone who can help me out there??

 

if your using publisher 2010, there is a free add on that you can use to convert to pdf, make sure its on cmyk when you convert it and print the pdf sorry i see youve already tried it

 

you're taking an awfully wrong start... Publisher isn't the right software for this purpose. Yes it creates RGB files and your printer have to interpret it in to CMYK. I am sure it is doing it's best but not always accurate as there is no 100% interpretation RGB to CMYK. Try photoshop or save as PDF and covert to CMYK, at least this way you may get predictable results...