Blue flower prints purple from PS CS3

Hi. This is driving me crazy!!! I am using WinXP/Home, Adobe RGB 1998 Color profile for both the image and Photoshop CS3. I print on Epson R2400, have freshly and properly installed inks and nozzles are not clogged. I have an image of a blue flower, and I do mean blue, not purple and not lavender. It is definitely blue on the monitor. It is blue in Bridge. It is blue in its jpg format and in its .psd format. When I print using the printer with Photoshop as color manager and print management off, the result is a purple flower. All the other colors in the image seem to be fine---green is green, yellowish is yellowish. When I print using printer color management(settings all properly done), NOT Photoshop's, I end up with a blue flower! Anyone with any ideas at all why this happens? I sure would appreciate knowing! I can do the workaround by letting the printer manage color, but seems to me that Photoshop really ought to be doing this. I have not noted problems with any other colors...only blue!

The magenta shift is NOT a matter of CIELab, it's IMO
an optical illusion.
Please look here
http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/hlscone03052001.pdf
on page 2, Outside top view of the HLS cone:
At 255° = 270°-15° we have at the border fully
saturated blue and in the middle white. The inter-
polation shows halfways not medium saturated blue
but medium saturated blue with a magenta tint.
One can test this further by gradients in PhS:
Foreground
R'G'B'=c1/c1/255 delivers Lab=L1/a1/b1
Now use the same lightness L1 but no saturation:
Background
Lab=L1/0/0 delivers R'G'B'=c2/c2/c2
Depending on c1 (e.g. 0 or 70), one can see a
magenta tint approximately in the middle.
A first test (unequal lightness) can be done by
Foreground
R'G'B'=0/0/255
Background
R'G'B'=255/255/255
By the way: all interpolations by gamma encoded
RGB-numbers (therefore written R'G'B'). The effect
would be essentially the same for linear RGB, because
I'm adding equal values R'=G' to full B'.
The solution is not the replacement of Lab (which is
not involved in the test above), but the application
of a correction in order to compensate the optical
illusion.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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