The problems I’ve posted here since upgrading from Catalina and PS 22.5 to Ventura and PS 24.x included wonky Photoshop Manages Colors Print windows operation and info. Plus, when I hit ‘Print’ Photoshop sent data to the printer but simply spit out blank paper. After thoroughly uninstalling the Epson driver and PS and manually deleting the remaining folders and files and reinstalling the printer driver and PS 24.x over and again, still no luck. I got the same bad behavior.
Turns out the problem was the Canson paper’s custom .icc that I created and had been happily using in Catalina with PS 22.5. It not only doesn’t work in the upgraded OS and PS versions, it also causes the above-stated tear-ones-hair-out problems. What’s truly maddening: I could select that .icc profile in the Printer Profile window—it wasn’t greyed out and there was no other indication it was causing problems. And, though I’ve researched reasons for these kinds of problems, I haven’t read anything about their potentially being caused by a useable custom .icc profile from a previous OS and PS.
Happily, what solved all the above-stated problems was downloading and using Canson’s .icc profile. Now everything appears to be working well.