Issue: color print not true

Lightroom 5.7 (Updated from 5.5 after the problem below--no help)
Windows 7
Epson 2400 Photo Stylus Printer
Photoshop elements 10
New problem after using Lightroom for several years
Working with bright red flower photo. Color management set to profile for premium luster paper
Preview and print come out magenta.
Same photo in Photoshop Elements 10 previews and prints fine.

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
To quote:
“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??
This is one of those computer issues that is not intrinsically important--not my livelihood at stake, but just like a coding bug-Why Won't it Work (and it used to).
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
I have considered doing a system restore to several months back but I have never had a system restore work on this machine and am reluctant to try again.
Lots of words but precision in description is difficult to achieve..

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