Lightroom printing issue

[Thierry_F]

LR printing module is cool but unusable for me. I'm going to end my 30 days trial, and I was nearly ready to purchase this software, but now I think I can't go further. I print with an "old" Canon S900, and use the "let printer determine colors" option. In the printer driver I choose the ICM box, meaning the printer driver is in control. All colors are greyish for portraits, people look very sick. When I do the same in Photoshop CS2 using a sRGB or Adobe 1998 colorspace, everything goes well. But if the embedded profile or the software colorspace is ProPhoto, it is a disaster in Photoshop too. Could it mean the issue comes from the wide colorspace ProphotoRGB ?
Has anybody a clue about what to do, to print correctly with Lightroom or with ProphotoRGB in PS?

[Schewe]

I print with an "old" Canon S900, and use the "let printer determine colors" option. In the printer driver I choose the ICM box, meaning the printer driver is in control.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=115591\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]

That's your problem cause the print driver ain't handling to color correct...let Lightroom handle color by selecting "Other" and adding the ICC (ICM) profiles for your printer. Given the same profile, Photoshop and Lightroom are equally capable of the same output with Lightroom's workflow much imporved.

[digitaldog]

Let Printer Determine Color is as Bruce Fraser would say, a huge hurt me button. Don't go there! If the stars all align (driver, OS, application) it can work. But YMMV. Pick a printer profile and let LR handle the color.

[reflexions]

----But YMMV. Pick a printer profile and let LR handle the color.
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I've been struggling with LR printing and have followed a number of posts about problems without finding anything that works.  I'm using Stylus Photo R800 printer and have tried a lot of different combinatons of LR and Printer settings.  The color is way off compared with the same prints in Photoshop.

In LR I set the profile to Stylus Photo R800 (the only one in the drop down menu) and rendering to "relative"

In the Epson printer window that appers, I've tried:
1) ICM Profile "Off" as well as "Applied by Printer Software"
2) Color Management "Color Cntrols", and "ICM".

The results don't seem to change at all (is that a clue?)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciate.  In the meantime I'm having to exporti jpegs and print in PS.

[digitaldog]

If you use a printer profile, you have to set the driver for NO Color Adjustment. And of course, you need to pick the media settings and all other driver settings that sync up with how the profile was originally designed (how the targets were output to build the profile).