Printing in Aperture 3 -- Interface & Presets Issues

I very much like the general direction of change in the printing interface, and I can print with satisfaction as to quality in A3, with my primary printer (Epson R1900). But the creation of printing presets seems not to be able to capture final settings made in the Printer dialogue, nor is there a way in the A3 dialogue to pre-access those functions in order to Save in the Preset. This includes turning off the color management in the printer, and setting of expansion of the print to zero when using borderless. I seem to have to reset these for each print I initiate?
In addition, while I can get a change to a Preset to Save between sessions of Aperture, if I have two or more custom presets, the change to any one of them gets made in all of them?
With the first issue, what I am talking about is what in A2 could be accessed in the Aperture print dialogue with the Print Settings button. With that you could access those items that one also sees after you click the Print button, but by doing so via the Print Settings button, those choices could also be encompassed into the Save of the Preset.
For clarity of what is missing, as least for Epson printers, click on the third screenshot in this below O'Reilly link, to enlarge, then you will see the Print Setting button immediately below the name of printer box:
http://blogs.oreilly.com/aperture/2008/06/printing-tips.html
I found this to be the same for all Epson printers, at least. But I see no way to access this in A3. This is not a good development if something akin to the Print Settings button cannot be found in the A3 Print dialogue. If achieving this involves selections for the Default Printer that would impact every app that might use this printer, it would not be handy.
With respect to the saving of Presets, I find this mysterious and either a bug or something simple that I am missing.
Ernie

Ernie,
there seems to be a bug with saving presets, see
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2349173
for more info and workarounds.
Printing in AP3 is a 'two-step' process now - there might have been problems to integrate the various options of printer drivers into the AP interface...
1) AP printing dialog. In AP3 the settings for ColorProfile, PageOrientation, Paper and Printer are saved in the apps preference file, while all other settings can be bound to user-defined presets. This means that changes made to these four will always be reflected to all presets and you will have to check them before you print.
2) System printing dialog. Here you could define presets for those (printer related) options not available in the AP interface anymore (printing and paper quality, etc.) to streamline your printing. The four settings mentioned above are taken over from AP to System dialog.
I must admit that I personally liked the AP2 way much more, but this one seems to be more compatible.
Hope this helps,
Jashe

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Raist,
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Are you running Tiger, as your Profile info indicates? In Leopard, I see the same issues with properly setting up printing whether printing from Aperture 2, Photoshop CS3 or Pages. Conflict appears to result from allowing the printer to control printing vs the application.
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Hello , have a look , I've posted before "Printer problem" and found this , so I'm not alone .
http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=aperture+print+vertical+lines

I print from Aperture all the time, and much prefer that path to using Photoshop, or other apps. I do not understand your topic, nor have any issue with print quality from Aperture.
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Double-click the Keychain Access application in the Utilities folder.
Click Passwords in the Category list on the left side of the window.
Click the NetServices item in the main window and press the delete key to remove it.
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Quit Aperture.
Go to the Apple Online Store.
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Log in to your account with your Apple ID and password.
Enable 1-Click for your account.
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Open Aperture and test.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3464?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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