Hi All,
Thought I provide some additional info, as I was still not able to resolve this issue (which I described in more detail in my post from Feb. 2021:
https://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=133310.msg1207968#msg1207968 ).
To recap: Every couple of weeks, my installation breaks and the colors get thrown off completely, way too saturated (see examples in my original post). This is not a small deviation, as you might get from wrong internal printer calibration or picking a profile for a different paper, as the deviation is at least a dE of 25.
To my biggest frustration, the problem still prevails, even though I moved to a brand new Mac end of Jan. (MacBook Pro M1 Max, running all the Monterey sub-versions that came out since then).
I was very careful to not migrate to the new machine by copying over any binaries or configuration files from my old MacBook, but really do this as a 100% clean new install, downloading all applications, drivers, etc. from the manufacturer websites again, installing and configuring everything from scratch.
We can also really exclude any one-off mishandling of my part, because I have now been doing the exact same things to print my test images many dozen times, and they only involve a couple of simple steps:
- Load test image (TIFF encoded in ProPhoto) in PS
- While loading, tell PS to assign the ProPhoto profile
- Go to PS print menu and check all printer settings (paper type, print quality, etc.)
- Select right paper profile
- Select "PS manages colors"
- Choose "absolute colorimetric" intent
- Go!
Also, once the setup is broken, it is broken consistently, until I reinstall the printer, which is really the only thing that fixes it!
At this stage, I can only suspect it is either due to the macOS updates or the PS updates, as I don't know what other thing would changes every couple of weeks.
I am really surprised that not more people are suffering from it, as I did a complete clean new installation of my entire Mac.
Thanks in advance for sharing any additional insights that might have emerged.
Markus