Peter Figen Offline Upload & Sell: On
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All you've really done is proven to yourself that your "legacy" profiles sucked. The Printer Manages Color has to use whatever manufacturer's profile that is associated with the paper type you choose. That's all it can do, except that the choice of using Black Point Compensation is now grayed out and unchecked - and you really do need to check that if you're going to use Relative Colorimetric for your printing conversion. That alone could account for a huge difference in how your prints look, but, really, the results should be the same if you're using the same profile - and I would test that out by using Ps Manages Color and choosing the same profile and printing both versions with Perceptual (only for the purposes of this test though). And ol' Dave from Adobe. Since he's in charge of the print path in Photoshop, ask him while you're at it, how they happened to miss that fact that the updates to Ps and Lr a month ago were so screwed up in printing.
Don't know about the Canon supplied profiles, but the ones that Epson ships for their media are pretty damned good overall, just slightly less pleasing than the ones I make for myself. As for third party papers, it's really hit or miss as to whether a particular profile is going to be good, great or a piece of crap. There is no consistency even with the same manufacturer, so using a third party profile of unknown provenance as a "standard" is not really a great idea. Or at least the results won't be of much use.
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