Print settings are a MESS in Ventura

I have to agree with the title of this post, yes they are a mess. I have published my findings on the following forum https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/apple-ventura-printer-driver-issues.16400/#post-141631 . Briefly on my Mac Studio running Ventura and printing to a Canon Pro-10s printer settings, specifically the ColorSync setting gets changed from ColorSync to Canon Manages Color when any of the <Cancel> buttons on any of the sub menu panes are pressed. This is very confusing as the user has to check the settings before printing. The use of printer presets also causes issues which I have not fully investigated. Lastly printing from DxO PL incorrectly (in my opinion) allows an ICC profile to be selected in the ColorSync pane. As soon as it is selected Photolab crashes. So yes its a mess. The link above includes screen shots comparing Big Sur and Ventura. I suspect that the UI issues were introduced in the change from System Preferences to the new System Settings pane which served only to introduce bugs such as those described above. Thank you Apple and any chance of reverting to Snow Leopard ?

It now works properly in the latest version of macOS. I tested it in a VM.

I tried complete wipe and restore to Ventura and this issue was present, so no amount of uninstall/reinstall will fix this problem.

I'm having the same issue. My brother printer, which I've adored, is no longer allowing me to turn OFF the duplexing, which means I cannot print checks here in my office as needed. I contacted Brother, and they have firmly stated that they have no intentions of providing a driver for OS 13/Ventura. So, apple, please please please fix it! I need to get my old printer drivers working as they should, as they have, vs. the generic print screen now provided by Ventura, which is disfunctional and inoperative/responsive. This should not force a dump of a printer that's a tank otherwise--

I have an HP Z9+ large format printer and Ventura effed up printing big time from Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and pretty much everything else. Paper orientation, ICC color matching screwed up at first. Then I reset the print system and uninstalled and reinstalled the HP PS and Raster drivers. Now the Apple print presets WILL NOT keep the paper type, print quality, and gloss enhancer settings from one print to another. WTF!?! Apple? Why is this so unstable? FIX IT!

And to follow on from this....I feel like it is pointless getting in touch with Apple support anymore as the Advisors just continually request to restart in Safe Mode to see if that fixes it. Shock horror, it doesn't fix it. Perhaps the only option is to go back to a previous OS version, perhaps Monterey.

So I see that I am not alone with the high level of frustration with Apple printing. I've been trying to print a custom size card and after print system reset and recreating custom sizes for not one, not 2 but 4 different printers and 3 different Macs, I can ONLY get it to work on an OkiMC573. (Kyocera, Fuji and OkiMB472 did not work.) Did not recognise the card size, wrong tray you name it nothing worked except for the OkiMC573. Unfortunately the printer it has to work on for our business is the Kyocera. This is abysmal. We had trouble with printing generally in previous versions on MacOS but Ventura is the worst. How hard is it - please. Get your act together Apple.

Frankly, I wish it had been that simple. Resetting the Apple Print System in Ventura and reinstalling drivers is not a solution that worked on my Mac Pro, my personal MacBook Pro, or my work MacBook Air. I had persistent problems with Ventura printing on a slew of printers of many manufacturers: HP DesignJet Z9+, an HP OfficeJet 4650, Epson SureColor P600, Xerox Versalink 8000, and Xerox C9070. Print presets did not work, as in not retaining specific print settings, and Lightroom Classic printed wrong colors on the HP Z9+ using the same workflow that I had used before in Catalina and Monterey OS.

When reinstalling the HP OfficeJet 4650 Drivers using HP Easy in my reinstalled Monterey for the MBA, I have not been able to get the HP driver to work. I had to find an older HP Mac OS diver set from the Apple Support Downolads site and use the PPD for an earlier HP OfficeJet 4630 to get it to be able to print without an error. The Apple AirPrint driver also works for that printer. So HP makes coding errors too it seems. There is nothing "HP Easy" about a print failing after it starts and giving the inscrutable message "filter failed."

It seems there is a deeper issue here that Apple (and to some extent printer manufacturers) have not fixed, and people who need anything beyond basic print functionality have been harmed by the bugs in the print system in Ventura, causing wasted time, ink, and paper (which can get very expensive for high end photo printing).

"MESS" is the polite word regarding what has happened to printing with Ventura. I can't begin to tell you how screwed up printing high quality prints with Photoshop is. I refuse to waste any more time trying to get my printing results back to what they were. I'm moving Photoshop over to Windows - and we'll see how that works. Can't be any worse.

So this worked for about 2 hours. And then the original problems kicked back in. FFS. No idea at this point whether it is an Apple issue or an Adobe issue. Either way it is completed messed up and losing my business money at a time when things are hard enough.

I have been dealing with this problem since Ventura came out and spent 10+ hours over multiple calls on the phone with apple support with no solution. this workaround however worked!!! so THANK YOU!!!

The Ventura print system can't even remember to do double-sided printing from one print to the next, so what hope is there for more elaborate settings?

Quite extraordinarily poor quality-assurance, given that we are now on macOS13.3.