Lightroom too dark printing problem Epson R1800

I'm having some problems printing in Lightroom 2.4 on Mac under 10.5.7. The prints come out too dark and too saturated.

The look fine on the screen. They print fine in CS3. I can export the image to a jpg, open that in preview and it prints fine. They print fine when printing is "managed by the printer" under lightroom. When I do profiled printing under lightroom they are horrible. This seems to support the concept of a problem with lightroom's printing module.

Looking through stuff on the web, this appears to be a problem with Leopard on the Mac and Lightroom. I haven't been able to come up with a workaround. Has anyone else?

Printer is Epson R1800.

Monitor is profiled (MBP 15"), paper profiles are correct (I have all the stuff to do my own).

Anyone have a workaround other than sending it to CS3 and printing?

J.

Yeah, it's a bug.
What printer driver?

It's either double profiling, or the OS/driver converting to GenericRGB.

LR 2.4 and PSCS4 can be problematic: Post on my blog.

Thread on LR forums: Link

The driver is the most current one on the Epson download site. I just reinstalled it today.

It looks a lot like it's double profiling - like when you have CS4 doing managing the color and then turn on printer profiling in the driver. Flesh tones look orange, colors are in general oversaturated etc...

I read the LR Forums post but was not sure how to try that on the Mac. I don't understand the control translation to/from windoze. So, I didn't give that a try.

It is clearly tied to LR for sure. LR is missing huge functionality if it won't print right - one whole module written off as useless basically.

So, right now what I have is an action in PS that takes the image in, adds an adjustment layer and tweaks it a bit before printing. That really slows the whole thing down though.

What a mess though. I can't believe this made it through Adobe's QA before releasing.

J.

It's not Adobe in this case, it's the printer drives fault.
I read something about it on Adobe Forums a while back: (sorry, no time to search now)

If I remember correctly it was something like this:
Your printer needs to be default (OS)
You can (in color sync utility) set a default profile for that printer. I think you should change that to the profile you want.

Not sure if that's correct and if it's all, so make sure to check...