Double color management issue when printing in InDesign

The one thing you haven't shown us is your Print Driver settings:

In Option 1, if you select Colorsync and select the matching Paper Profile. under Print Settings, the option to set Color Management in the driver should be greyed out. (I'm not on the same OS as you, so my screen grabs are from a Monterey).

Alternatively, In Option 2, you COULD select EPSON Color Controls, but make sure he now active Color Management setting is set to Off.

Try option 2 and see if that works better for you.

Hi Wyatt.

You shouldn't be applying the profile twice, so much as you're updating the settings with a new, but (hopefully) exact same, choice.

As long as you're taking the information from the very same ICC profile, we should be talking about nothing more than a redundant, rather than accumulative, process. But if your color is off — for whatever reason — it's good to have a proper reference to work with as you sleuth this problem.

That means test pages, and ideally color checking/calibration tools. If you don't have a good objective test page to print — meaning color calibration swatches/bars and targets, not just sample pictures — I recommend the file you can get through this link. Click the Color Test Page button at the top of the copy block, and output it to Adoibe PDF to save a file you can use for your color reproduction baselines. Print the just-opened PDF test page first from Photoshop, then save a copy of it in whatever format you prefer for placing Photoshop images in InDesign.

Create two InDesign documents. Place the saved PDF test page in one InDesign document, then go to the second document and place the saved Photoshop file with your preferred format and color settings. Print them both and see if you have any reproduction differences between the Photoshop output and output from the two InDesign documents.

• If they all print the same, and you're unhappy with them, we're talking about hardware calibration and your ICC profile. Between the two of them, something's out of whack.
• If the Photoshop image and the placed Photoshop document within InDesign print the same and the placed PDF test page prints different, we're talking about issues applying the ICC profile/color settings from Photoshop.
• If both InDesign documents print the same and the Photoshop output is different, we're talking about issues applying ICC profiles/color settings from InDesign.

As suggested elsewhere, if you use a PDF-based workflow you should output a PDF file, then also print those from Adobe Acrobat. Again we're talking about printing three files: The original PDF test file output directly from Acrobat, then PDF file output from both of the InDesign documents. Compare those too.

Let us know what you find from your proofing/printing tests and hopefully we can help you find a course of action. It's hard tellin' not knowin', and running the test pages will help us all isolate the source(s) of your color reproduction issues.

Hope you find this helpful,

Randy

It's always best to export PDF from InDesign and print from Acrobat. 

One thing that I'll add - I'm using the latest versions of both Photoshop and Indesign (20.0.1), and i'm running Sequoia (15.2) with an epson SureColor p900 (13.96), if that's helpful. Thanks!