Issues when Lightroom handles a print's color profile

Question

I use a Canon Pixma PRO-200.When I let the printer handle the color of a print (Or I print outside of lightroom), the colors of the photo look almost identical to my monitor ones (Generally I use my MacBook Pro screen).  When I tell Lightroom to handle the color management, specifying the right paper/printer profile, the images come out with a green cast, specially in the shadows, just as if the white balance tint was shifted to the green side. Why is this happening?  I would like to have more control over how my prints look like, but right now I have to drift a lot on my screen to have what I want printed if I dont want to concede color management to the printer.

TheDigitalDog · Accepted Answer

How could you know this? I just printed your test file and the same photo from my original post and they look very similar to what I see.

I have also updated the drivers, as i read that MacOS updates may affect them...

Cannot wait until tomorrow morning to check them with the right light!

@Pan Pejsek wrote:

How could you know this?

How can I know what?

NEVER let the Mac OS update a print driver.

TheDigitalDog · Answer

First off, you need to consider any print template you've made and use as a cause: Start from scratch, configure everything in both the Print Driver and LR correctly, save it as a new template and test.

Always test color management issues and test output using good color reference images designed for that task. The color reference images RGB values are such they are set for output and are editing and display agnostic. Test the output this way and examine for the same color issues so we know it's not your image specific issues causing the problems:

http://www.gballard.net/photoshop/pdi_download/
http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html#TestPrint
http://www.digitaldog.net/files/2014PrinterTestFileFlat.tif.zip

There is nothing bad per se about Manged by Printer but it isn't ideal. You can forget about soft proofing, picking a rendering intent, and depending on the OS and such, everything might get funneled into sRGB prior to print that isn't ideal.

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