CS5 Printing to an Epson 1900 What happened?

Question

It worked fine in CS 4 to the Epson just select Adobe RGB as the profile in the Print dialog then do the same in the Epson Drivers now I cannot do that once I have the color management option selected in the photoshop print dialog this is now grayed out in the Epson drivers. I found it the past that the data is not fully passed along to the Epson drivers and you have to also select it in the Epson drivers regardless of the fact tht you had Photoshop managing things.
This is another instance of very poor testing process on the side of Adobe when they have testers all of who are creating their own profiles for their paper leaving the professional photographer to go through hell to get their first good print using Photoshop.
Perhaps it is about time you get testers who actually make their living taking photography rather than testers who sell custom profiles.
What nonsense this is from day one that I first got an epson printer I was told that this works for Adobe and it should work for me but everything that Adobe does is not based on everyday professional photography conditions it is base on lab condition which is nonsense, in a controlled environment.
I printed my images extremely well with the 1900 until I tried today and cannot do what I have been doing before. Make the improvement but it has to work. You spend entirely too much time improving thins that just break what ever was fixed before.
And to Chris Cox or any other Adobe employee this has been the issue every single release since I first purchased Photoshop 5, not one time has Adobe not left the user to fend for themselves after they have broken their workflow.
It is time to stop and get to work. This really stinks.
BTW I have my worked reproduced world wide and have very consistent results in Magazines and Books and print to Digital CPrints all the time without any issues.
Adobe your testing team stinks they should have been screaming about this nonsense. Now I have to either print from CS 4 or find a work around.
The fact that many users are using other programs to print is testimony of this failure. it is about time you not prove how smart you are and just make a reasonable work flow.
I seldom complain here but this is just too much it would be please=ant to see one time where this was not an issue.

Answer 1

I agree this whole issue is confusing. I have been on the issue (proper printer driver behavior and proper application behavior) using Apple's new print path for a few years now, so I will try to make an attempt to clear up as much confusion as possible.
If drivers and applications are working (written) properly this is how it is supposed to work.
When printer manages color is selected in an application print dialog then all functions of the printer driver are available.
When applications manages color is selected then Color Matching is grayed out defaulted to ColorSync, and the property written print driver defaults to No Color Adjustment (Epson) or No Color Correction (Canon).
See attached examples of both Epson 9600 driver version 8.19 and Canon iPF driver version 2.14.
Epson can and has definitely gotten it right with their latest drivers.
Canon on the other hand uses a special case file (AppColorMatchingInfo.xml) which list the applications that use Apple's new printing path. New application like Photoshop CS5 will need to be added to this file or the driver will default to color management when application manages color is chosen which results in double profiling.
I see nothing that indicates to me that neither Apple or Adobe have problems or bugs in this printflow. Only drivers (and old drivers) that are not written correctly for Apple's new printing path seem to have these problems with double profiling. That being said, do I agree with Apple's approach regarding the new print path? NO. It appear to be an attempt to idiot proof printing using application manages color printing, although it is claimed to be necessary for 64-bit applications. I personally would prefer to use the old print path (like still available in Indesign) where all options are available in the driver regardless of what CM setting I choose in the application print dialog. But it is what it is.
Doyle