Photoshop Print Settings - what to use - photos look awful.

I don't know what I did but when I go to print a photo the Photoshop Print Settings pop up.  Which is better - Printer manages color or Photoshop?  I don't know how to change my Printer Profile.  I have search HP for over 3 hours.  I have an Officejet Pro 8600 and can't seem to find anywhere to change it.  The photoshop print settings the Printer Profile is :sRGB IEC61966-2.1.  Under Color Management - Please use Adobe Color Printer Utility if you need to print with No Color Management - also didn't work.  The more I do the worse it gets.  The prints for instance arms showed dark specks.  Look awful. I have an iMac and am using the iMac settings in my color profile in preferences.  Any ideas?

gener7 wrote:
I was never too sure, but when it comes to consumer inkjets, it's best to let the printer software worry about it.
Gene
I'll go along with that.  Use the printer manufacture's software and paper, and you at least have a chance of things working out.  I went through years of hassle with various Epson printers, even spending serious money having a custom profile made, but the results were never great, and the Internet showed I was not alone.  Since switching to Canon with a Pixma 9000Pro, and using Canon's EasyPhotoPrintPro software, it just works first time every time, so I can thankfully circumvent all that printer profile mylarky.  Incidentally, I do use other paper, principally Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl, which works as well as Canon paper.  But I almost never enter competitions nowadays, so have not used the photo printer in over a year.  I bet it cost $25 in ink just turning the thing on, and I can get a professionally printed A3 for that money, and I don't have a third of my desktop taken up by a rarely used printer.

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