Has anyone got a solution for the printing issue that currently exists in LR and PS with the Epson injet printers? The problem is that there is no way of selecting your paper/printer icc profile in these programs and therefore epson color controls the color output, see screen shots below. I have uninstalled all adobe software and then deleted all epson software and then reinstalled it all. Any ideas how to fix? I'm using a macbook pro - sonoma and epson sure color p800 printer. The only solution I have come up with is to let the printer manage colors and then you can select colorsync and then select your icc profile.
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Can you clarify where you see a problem? You said there’s “no way of selecting your paper/printer icc profile in these programs,” but your first screen shot shows that you did select a profile in the Printer Profile menu in Photoshop. So your first screen shot shows Photoshop set up correctly for application color management (Photoshop Manages Colors) with a profile selected.
The actual problem that does exist in the screen shots is that ColorSync is selected in the Epson printer driver. Because you selected Photoshop Manages Colors, that workflow requires that color management be shut off in the printer driver, and Photoshop reminds you of that next to the yellow triangle in the first screen shot. But you cannot shut off Epson color management if you select ColorSync. The correct choice in that dialog box is Epson Color Controls, so that in the Epson Printer Settings dialog box you can select “Off (No Color Management)” as shown in the picture below.
When you have a profile selected in Photoshop (which you have done), and color management shut off in the Epson printer driver (which you haven’t done yet according to your screen shots), color management is properly coordinated. The picture below shows how the Color Mode menu in the Epson printer driver should be set if you selected a profile in Photoshop like you did in your first screen shot: The Epson printer driver must be set to “Off (No Color Management)”. This is also what Epson has recommended for many years (see steps 9–11 in that Epson link); the only thing that has changed recently is that Apple rearranged the Print dialog box.
If you select a profile in both Photoshop and the Epson printer driver, that could set up a double color management situation which is to be avoided. You have either the application or the printer driver color-manage the print job, but never both. If you prefer to select the profile in the Epson printer driver, then in the Photoshop Print dialog box, from the Color Handling menu you must select Printer Manages Colors so that Photoshop will just send the document color values and let the printer driver apply a profile.
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