Photoshop CS5 Mac Printer dialog

Question

I cannot get a printer dialog window for any printer that I have tried ( Epson or HP). When I choose "Print" or type Command P the Photoshoop printing dialog comes up (choice of  printer, page setup, Color Management etc), but on clicking Print not printer dialog appears, and a print is made. I am unable to choose any of  the options normally available for the printer. I am working on a 27" iMac,  and I still have CS4 installed. (Thank goodness! I can use it to print in contrast to CS5.)
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Laurie
I'm not sure that I understand  the source of your problem with the Epson profiles, but I don't think that it has anything to do with having both versions, CS4 and CS5 being installed on the same machine. Having them both running at the same time might cause some problem both I don't know what that would be.
What is always more perplexing is the location of the Epson profiles. The Epson driver software, for whatever the reason, installs the standard  profiles for its papers in a "package" located in Hard Disk Name > Library> Printers > Epson > Inkjet Printer>ICC Profiles> Pro38.profiles. You cannot discover this by doing a search of your Mac. Once you have navigated  to the "package" however, you can view its contents by holding down the Control key, clicking on the package and  choosing Show Package Contents. After then navigating down to Resources you will discover the 3800 profiles all named Pro38...
Why Epson chooses to hide its profiles in a "bushel basket" I have no idea but, the profiles should  be discoverable by CS4 or CS5 or any other program that uses ColorSync. I suppose that you could do the following safe experiment if you do find the package  and  the contents are as  described. Make an alias of  the package (or one of each of  the individual profiles) and put the alias(es) in your usual ColorSync folder. That ought to work and reveal to you the profiles that you want to use in CS5. It should also prevent any interference with whatever peculiar scheme Epson has for hiding the profiles in the first place.
And  just to make matters a little more confusing (!) if you download and install any of  Epson's custom profiles these will go into a folder named Epson Stylus Pro 3800 and this folder in turn will be found in Hard Disk Name > Library > Color Sync > Profiles.
I hope  that is helpful.
Finally, the problem I had was simply that I did not realize that Adobe had changed the printing routine but incorporating access to the printer dialog into its own Print dialog window. where it used to say Page Setup it now says Print Settings{!}, and  in the Print Settings dialog it now says Save rather than Print. So the final say on actually getting the printer to print is  in the CS5 printing dialog window - not in the Epson printer dialog. And why did  they do that? Well .. if you're going to sell an upgrade you have to make some changes, and  if  you can do it - why not?