This is really quite interesting, except for the fact that the OP still hasn't received what might be a possible answer to his initial query. With what I thought was a rather innocent statement on my part I seem to have kindled a barrage of fellow forum members who are trying to convince me that LR is indeed much superior to PS in every way, including printing. To many it probably is exactly that, but since I was of the belief that this was a democracy I stepped up and voiced an opinion. Actually that's not quite true. For me it is not an opinion at all, it is fact for my way of working and printing images. If that leaves me behind, so be it, but my very picky customers love the work I do and keep coming back for more of the same. There may come the day when I will develop the urge to change, in which case I might fire up LR again and spend most of my time hiding in the print module. I might eventually prove myself wrong as well, but until that time arrives I shall continue printing from PS. I know the rest of you good folks will definitely not do so, but oddly enough that doesn't bother me at all, and I would never try to steer you in any other direction.
"For the variety of work I do I find Photoshop to be faster for printing." Do you really find this sentence so revolting as to sidetrack the OPs initial question? He is correct, it was not about the app, it was about the rather strange results. I would still like an answer from the OP to my two questions. I'm probably the only one who believes my questions were valid, but they did have meaning for me.
Let's get back on track. You know, the one I apparently derailed. My apologies.
Gary