macOS Sequioa / Photoshop 25 and messed up print settings during printing

@MarkDS "if one goes straight to PRINT withoiut re-opening anything, the print comes out correctly. So the moral of this story is: after selecting a bunch of settings and saving them, DO NOT LOOK BACK. Trust the system and just print."

Thx for the reply, but sadly not in this users case (with a Canon). the print is awful (nearly every time) hence my investigations. 

we used to have a solution to savings preset to appear in the list above (do it in Preview) but even that's not working properly now. 

Yeah I'm a RIP fan and I use GMG colorproof RIP here for certified proofing with an Epson Pro4900 (no Canons here), the downside is that Colorproof’s Windows only so has to be run through Parallels and colorproof only likes Intel, not ARM processors, so it has to be on a pre Silicon Mac.

Colorburst X-PHOTO & X-PROOF provided an amazing solution for many of my clients, with great control over black generation too, increasing clarity and fine detail and saving ink - but development ceased years back. I suspect the addition of Epson's orange and Green inks made RIP development for every new printer just too expensive. Colornurst actually drove the printer as a CMYK+n device, rather than using the driver. Their later product sat atop the driver, so one lost the black generation control. .

Look at Proofmaster perhaps?

I'm told Canon's own print utility ("Professional Print and Layout") works OK (there's also Canon "Print Studio Pro") - be good to know how well those work ';~} 

You already mentioned Epson Print Layout, so, I guess that's all good and settings stick?

thanks for taking the time

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I have been given to understand that Apple messed it up with uncorrected APIs going back as far as Ventura. BUT THAT SAID, the business of printer drivers appearing not to stick could also be printer manufacturer driver issue. In fact, with the Epson driver for the P5370 I find it infuriating that once one selects the Printer and Print settings in the driver ane clicks SAVE, one cannot go back into this menu to see whether it saved correctly, because it always shows the default settings upon being opened, not the most recenrtly saved ones. However, if one goes straight to PRINT withoiut re-opening anything, the print comes out correctly. So the moral of this story is: after selecting a bunch of settings and saving them, DO NOT LOOK BACK. Trust the system and just print. Now that works with this particular printer and OS version. All bets off for any other. I am of the view that both the printer manufaturers and Apple Computer do NOT have their act together on this print pipeline and it really is long overdue that once and for all they fix it. I'm close to either buying a RIP or a Windows computer to get myself disentangled from all this nonsense.