It's the devil I tell ya...

Let me start out again by mentioning that color management is of the devil - at least when it comes to using Photoshop. This is a hot topic for me again as I work on a batches of photos I took yesterday up in Tennessee. If I bypass Photoshop, all is well. I can print just fine. Unfortunately, I have to use Photoshop a lot so printing can turn out being a challenge. Let me break it down for you (as I understand it so far):

1. When I take a photo, the photo is embeded with the color profile from my camera.
2. When I bring it into my computer, the profile gets read and converted to a monitor profile so that technically, what I see on my monitor (it's calibrated) is the same as what the camera saw.
3. When you mess with it in Photoshop, the profile gets converted into a "working" profile that PS uses.
4. When you go to print, you specify the color profile of the printer AND media you're printing to.
5. It's at this point when the print preview window comes up that I start with the ugly words.

Here's the thing, NOTHING I am using is weird or off-brand. Everything I have has factory color profiles associated with it. I don't need to use any generic settings...

Sigh.