Following Doug Gray's thoughts
here, I'm trying to find a way to print a device link image without color management in Photoshop using Photoshop color management.*
Basically I've taken a device link image properly created in Argyll and loaded it up in Photoshop. I've selected Convert to Profile Advanced with the Destination Space as the same ICC printer profile used to create the device linked image. For conversion options, I selected the Adobe (ACE) engine, and for intent, Relative Colorimetric with black point compensation and dithering. I suspect it doesn't matter whether I chose Absolute or Relative, black point, or dithering, but maybe.
In the print menu, I've selected Photoshop Manages Colors and the same printer profile (used to create the device linked image, which is also the printer/paper profile). Using the Gamut Warning checkboxes in the print pop up dialogue, I'm steered away from selecting Absolute Colorimetric toward either RelCol, Sat or Perceptual. I've chosen RelCol since that appears to retain the most colors. At this step, I imagine using Saturation or Perceptual will actually do some unwanted math on the file. That informed my selection in the paragraph above.
Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks
* As background, I'm working with a max souped up Early 2009 Mac Pro that can only update to Yosemite 10.11.6. Printing to a Z3200ps. Tried Adobe Printer Utility (doesn't work with my setup), ColorSync (same result) and Preview (same). Found Doug's link and by all appearances, this version of that workflow seems to work. There may be some inner workings of Adobe's ACE engine I should worry about, but it appears not or not much from a large print today. I've monkeyed around with Photoshop's gamut warnings and thought about the different rendering intents along the way, but this appears for now to be the right way.