Thanks for the prompt reply. Yes, I misspoke, when I said "Here however is the catch, when I say that I have solved the issue I get the desired results only when I let the printer manage the color in Lightroom."
When I choose the "Managed by Printer" option in LR the prints seem to turn out fine. When I, in that same drop-down box pick a specific ICC profile, the prints are off as described above.
When you choose "managed by printer" in LR, do you turn on colour management in the printer, and specify the print profile?
By default, most printers don't use colour management, but do their own thing - assuming the image to be sRGB, and applying proprietry alterations to make the print "pretty" (often increasing saturation and contrast). But this is not the same as turning off colour management, which means turning off ALL processing in the printer driver.
The two options for colour management:
- Specify "managed by printer" in LR, and then explicitly turn on colour management in the printer and specify the printer profile (almost certainly not the default setting in the print driver)
- Specify colour management in LR, specifying the printer profile, and then turning off all processing including colour management in the printer (again, almost certainly not the default setting
Forgive me if you know all this, but just in case, here is an example of settings for my Epson R2000 printer.
Here are the default printer settings:
Note the "Mode" is "PhotoEnhance". In this setting, the driver messes the picture to make it "pretty", which is useless for colour mangement.
If you get LR to manage colours by specifying a printer profile (not "printer manages colours") then you must explictly turn off all processing in the printer:
If you set "Managed by printer" in LR, then you must specify this in the printer driver:
and in this case, you must (for my printer) click "Advanced" and specify the printer profile, source image profile and so on.
This will vary from printer to printer, obviously.
Apologies if you know all this, but as PeterAit says, from your post it suggested you might not.