Color print not same as viewed in Lightroom

When I print the color doesn't match what is seen on screen. For example yellow will come out orange and purple comes out red.
Using HP 1680 PhotoSmart. Have chosen for Apps to control Color. Lightroom is showing that the printer will control the color and I can't get the check mark to go away. Don't know if I'm working in the right area for this problem??

The problem sounds clear. You've told LR that the printer is managing colour and told the print that LR is managing colour. The end result is that nothing is managing colour.
Note that to pick a printer profile in LR you need to select the Other option in the profile menu in the Print module. This will cause a dialog bos to open up that allows you to select the individual profiles you want to see in the menu. Once you've done that, you'll be able to select a profile.
Note that you may want to compare Managed by Printer against specifically picking a profile. On my Photosmart 7960, I actually get better results with MBP than I do with picking one of the HP profiles in LR. I have no idea why that is so, but it's consistent.

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Do you mean I should print the original without intervention by lightroom? I printed it using Windows Picture Manager and the Epson printer and the colors are OK. The linked picture in your reply is a screenshot of the print preview of an attempt to print the crimson image using LR controlling color with the specific Inkpress profile for the selected Luster paper. The paper print looks the same as the preview i.e. magenta
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“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”
1. Print of the original photo to the Epson printer using Windows Picture Manager (which I presume has no intrinsic color control but leaves all to the printer). I am asked to select a paper type but have no other printer control such as profile selection (although again I presume selecting the Luster paper selects that profile intrinsic in the printer)===result is crimson flower like the original.
2. From Lightroom with setting Printer Controls Color and paper selected as Luster in printer page setup and Printer NOT set to ICM but just to the radio button for Color Control (choices seen on one of the screen shots I posted yesterday) I get the ugly brown . BUT if I choose ICM and then choose a specific profile such as RR Luster or Inkpress Luster I STILL GET THE SAME UGLY BROWN
3 In Lightroom, If I choose to have LR control the color and choose a paper specific profile with the printer set to no color correction, I get magenta BUT if the choice in Lightroom is not a specific color profile but the apparently generic SPR2400 , then I get crimson.
4. Just to add to the confusion, in Photoshop Elements, Setting to Printer Controls Color and using a paper profile in the printer page setup such as Inkpress Luster, I do not get the ugly brown seen with the same settings in LR, I get a good crimson of the original.
In example 3 above, setting the paper TYPE to Luster and then choosing ICM with the same paper type profile might be a double correction ? In the same setting choosing SPR2400 as the profile may not apply a double correction and I get good color
But what about he fact that the same settings in Elements and LR when Printer Controls color produce different results--ugly brown in LR and original crimson in Elements.
I am a fan of BBC mysteries, Agatha Christie, Poirot etc, so perhaps he should be summoned??
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The machine I use for photo editing and printing is not used for much of anything else and has only had upgrades to LR, the antivirus program, java and such
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