Color Change printing from Illustrator vs. Photoshop

Hi,

I am trying to work through a small problem between Illustrator and Photoshop. I am printing to an Epson printer (using the Epson driver as that is the only option). I am using PSD and AI 2022 Creative Cloud and both are updated as this writing. 

When I print from PSD, colors are vibrant and what I expect. When I save the bitmap file from Photoshop and place it in AI, the color is slightly washed out. It is very slight, but noticeable to the right eye. I am embedding the profile (sRGB in this case) in the bitmap file. I've tried saving as jpg, tif, psd, pdf. I've tried linking and embedding the image in AI, all with the same results. I have AI set up in RGB and my color settings are synced through Bridge- see screen grabs. It seems as though AI is modifiying the file slightly, but I can't figure out where the change is occurring. When placing the image, I preserve the embedded profile. To eliminate another variable, I assigned sRGB to AI before placing it in case something with Adobe98 (my preferred workspace) was changing output. No difference.

On the Epson driver front, I have a preset saved for page setup and print settings and am using the same preset when printing from AI and PSD. In both cases, I am letting the Adobe app handle color and have the Epson CMM turned off other than the paper selection.

I've made my own output profile for the Epson (dye sub in this case) and am using this in both AI and PSD and am using the same rendering intent from both. The profile is an RGB profile as required by the Epson driver.

The only visible difference between printing from AI and PSD is in the Print Setup window. AI shows "Automatic" under Colorsync where PSD does not show that. I did try selecting my output profile instead of Automatic, in addition to setting the same profile in the AI print window.

The rotation shown in the screen grabs does not matter- I've tried it both ways it's the same.

I'm stumped on how to get them the same. Open to suggestions on what to check next. Hopefully, I missed something easy.