Color-managed printing from Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
Adobe's photo programs are key for most photographers. Many of us spend big bucks on color-managed workflow, including wide-gamut monitors, colorimeters and software to optimize display and output. But since Ventura, I can't print reliable color from Adobe software - at least Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, inDesign and Acrobat. Settings within the print dialog box also don't stick with other programs. But Adobe is the worst. When I set a generic paper (built-in printer profiles) for my Canon Pro-1000, it seems to change the color management options, graying out the option for ColorSync, leaving me with "printer-managed" color. This applies double color management to the output, which looks muddy and certainly not "managed."
In Apple's Preview, I can call up an image file I've output ("saved") from Adobe's software and the ColorSync option remains available. However, even when I set the specific, targeted printer/paper profile from my system's collection, if I call the dialog up again, it defaults to "Automatic" profile (which may or may not choose the intended profile; I have no way of knowing). Canon, after an hour on the phone, said the fault lies with Adobe, so I spent a full week trying to get help from Adobe concerning the failure of the print dialog with their software. When I finally got a senior Adobe tech on the phone (after five broken telephone appointments; each making me wait hours for a callback), he didn't know how the dialog worked - and certainly not how to fix it. He seemed totally unaware of how color-managed printing works. I think this problem rests partly with Apple. But I can't find any guidance for how to address it - beyond my workaround of using Preview - which does not seem to produce truly accurate color.
MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.10