Elements 6, disabling printer color control

When I select on my Epson sx200 printer under color management ICM, and then tick "no color adjustment" leaving "photoshop elements to manage colors" the resulting prints come out nearly totally black. help please!

Can you please elborate your problem a bit...
Are you getting black print-out or some options are disbaled???
+ Ripple (VJ)

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My printer is an Office Jet Pro 8500A Plus. My operating system is Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. I get excellent photos if I print from Windows Media. When I print from Photoshop Elements 10 all images are blurred and dark. Photoshop says to disable printer color management in printer preferences but there is no link.

I have researched the matter a lot and I,
along with many others, still have problems with this complicated
subject.
Color management is as simple in theory as Honoring a Source Profile and CONVERTING it to a Target Profile (monitor or printer) for Proofing.
But yes, we work at the mercy of the rocket scientists who try to dumb an extremely complicated process down so regular folks (like me) can make it work — trouble is I think their approach needs a bit more distilling and common sense sometimes...but it is very doable once you put in the time to figure it out, just follow the CHAIN in your workflow if you're still having problems.
If you want a "simple button" try staying in sRGB and printing out of Apple Preview app using OEM standard papers matched to your printer and OEM ink set.

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Has anyone tried printing with ICC profiles through Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac? Apparently, it does not work on Tiger nor Leopard? My prints look very dark and over-saturated.
The Datacolor folks, who make the Spyder3 calibrators I'm using, say my prints look like they are being "double color managed," possibly once by PSE and once by the printer driver (even though it's turned off).
Over at the Adobe Forums some say it's a problem with Leopard. I'm not so sure, because I found that printing color management works fine on a Mac with Photoshop Elements 4.01 and Tiger. Any comments? Thanks.

Aha! Got it. Adobe has confirmed that the problem is on their end. PSE 6 is double color managing the images. Here's what one user got in reply from Adobe on the subject. There are two separate answers:
Thank you for contacting Adobe Technical Support.
After consulting with my colleagues about the issue you raised, I can let you know the following:
The issue is both on our as well as the driver software side and the workaround we have given is the best available at this time. This issue is affecting all printers, not just Epson or Canon.
The soft proofing effect that you are seeing in the print preview is indeed an attempt at soft proofing. However since Photoshop Elements managed prints are incorrectly double colour managed it is not as useful as it was initially designed.
As to the exact details of why this occurred, we have no official information.
We believe that this will resolve the issues you are experiencing, however, should the reply not help solve the problem, please contact us again, quoting the case number given above, and we will re-open the case.
Answer # 2
We have had word back from our engineers regarding your issue.
The Photoshop Elements team are aware of the problem and are working with Apple and the printer manufacturers to get this to work correctly. In the meantime, the only workaround is to switch off colour management in Photoshop Elements and let the printer handle the colour management.
Unfortunately we can not make an estimation as to when a fix will be provided. We will close the case for the time being as there really is nothing more we can do about this issue besides offering the suggested workaround. Closing this case does not mean that the research will stop however and the engineers are working on a solution to this.
As the tech noted, let the printer handle the color instead. Tell PSE not to manage color so it is the step sending the data unaltered. When the print dialogue comes up, under the Color Correction heading, change the pull down menu to "ColorSync". In the menu below that, choose the correct profile for the paper you're using. If the Brightness menu is still active, look for any choice that allows you to turn it off. If none exists, leave it on Normal. If the options below that for Color Balance and Intensity are not grayed out, make sure they are at the center positions (no effect).
These steps are the same as before, except you're doing them in reverse. Photoshop is doing nothing and the print driver is handling the ColorSync chores rather than the other way around.

Disableing the printer color management in the printer settings box

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I am printing on a Epsonstylus r1800 printer using windows 8.. Printer has new drivers v6.55 The Adobe print setup reminds me to disable the printer color management in the print settings box. I can't find where to do this in the print settings box. Resulting in color that is way off. Any thoughts?

Must be done in the printer driver.
This is an example for the Epson 3880
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*[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=216810]
*[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8228088/remove-header-and-footer-from-window-print]
*[http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/22598-using-windowprint-without-printing-header-and-footer/]
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*Target to another window then print: [http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/view_message/3401817]
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At its core, color management is just a translator. I like to think of it as similar to correcting pronunciation in spoken language so that people from different regions can understand each other when reading aloud the same word. For example, where I grew up the city not far away called Versailles was pronounced as ver-sails, while in France the city for which our local one was named is pronounced vair-sigh. If a Frenchman asked directions of a local he'd get a balnk stare unless he knew the local pronunciation.
Color management looks at the numbers coming in (that's all digital color is), determines the source of the numbers so that it can understand how the source thinks they should be represented (prounounced, if you will) by the device or application making the image, then "translates" those numbers into a new set of numbers that will be identically represented at the destination, or "phonetically" the same. In many case the differences in the numbers will be very subtle or even non-existent. In other cases they will be quite radical. The biggest areas of concern are usually the edges of the color gamut for the output device and whether certain colors can be prodcued at all, and if not, how will color be shifted throughout the image. Do you fix only the out-of gamut colors, or shift everything a little so relationships are preserved? That's the rendering intent.
When I say double managed I mean that your application has seen the destination profile for the output device and made corrections in the numbers to match that device without further intervention, thendevice makes new transformations from those numbers based on some unknown algorithm. In all honesty I have no idea how printers do color management internally or what they are trying to do, whether it is removing color casts or boosting saturation, or whatever. If the numbers sent don't require further adjustment, then anything the printer management is doing is taking you away from "correct" (or intended) reproduction.
This does not mean that the result is not going to be pleasing to the viewer, or even more pleasing, just that it no longer accurately reflects the original. This is a major battle for those of us who do things like museum catalogs. Some paintings cannot be represented well in print because the artist uses colors that are well outside the press gamut. Other times there may be shadow or highlight detail in the original that gets lost without very careful adjustment of curves, and finding a balance between all the elements to create a "fair representation" is the goal.
With a photograph taken in "the wild" you have a lot of leeway for adjusting colors, brightness, and contrast to render a subject you find pleasing to the eye. If the grass is a shade of green that we expect and the snow isn't purple, most of us will presume the photo is "correct" when in fact if you take your print back to the original scene it amy look quite different. That's OK, as long as it looks the way YOU wanted it to look.
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,00,00,2a,e0,00,00,37,e0,\
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Preferences Registry extension to deploy the registry setting.
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