Color management in Lightroom 3 print Module

I was never quite happy with the Lightroom print module, but have recently noticed quite marked when printing color inconsistencies.  I use a HP B9180 printer and always use application controls the color (and learned how to set the printer driver to the top outside of Lightroom in the Windows 7 Control Panel to avoid what it back to one of the HPs built in printer setup options).  I also print using QImage Pro that I have set up as an external editor, test images sent to the QImage always print as expected, but the same images printed on Lightrooms 3 have a Magenta cast.  I always assumed that lightroom kept the image in his workspace of ProPhotoRGB internal in the print module and profile specific printer/paper ICC to convert directly from ProPhotoRGB "instructions to specific printer/paper" (QImage is certainly sending the file image in aRGB or ProPhotoRGB gives exactly the same result).  However I was looking at the model of printer and among her file found the following

printingFileProfile = "sRGB",.

printingFileResolution = 300,

printingProfile = "C:\\Windows\\system32\\spool\\drivers\\color\\HP PSPro B9100 - Advanced Photo Glossy.icc"

printingresolution = 300,

renderingIntent = "Perception."

Can I infer from this snippit that when the print module is enabled, a copy of the image is rendered within sRGB, reduced to 300 dpi color and this is the file that is used when printing (important to know even if you select managed by printer color management personnel as the B9180 pilot gives you a choice of aRGB and sRGB as managed by application on the color management tab)?

Does anyone know what precicely goes here?

What is the root cause of incompatible colors?

I'm under that Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit on a PC with a Core 2 Quad Q6700, 8 GB of DDR2 RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS graphics card.

I have the latest drivers for the B9180.

Can I infer from this snippit that when the print module is enabled, a copy of the image is rendered within sRGB, reduced to 300 dpi color and this is the file that is used when printing (important to know even if you select managed by printer color management personnel as the B9180 pilot gives you a choice of aRGB and sRGB as managed by application on the color management tab)?

No, the keyword "printingFileProfile" profile which is selected when you switch your output to a jpeg file. The keyword "printingProfile" is the profile that is used to translate the data to your printer. If you select a profile in the context menu, what Lightroom is converted from inner space linear prophoto for the profile of the printer and that sends the printer driver. No staging sRGB is made. If you get an unexpected color, what usually happened is color management double because the pilot has a different profile. He should leave the quiet data, but it is obviously not. The magenta colors are a very typical signature of double. My guess is that the setting "handled by the application" is to have ignored or is stunning when printing. Make sure you check that the definition of when you hit actually impression about me that he often returned to sRGB in Lightroom without discernible reason. He shouldn't do that, but there are a few strange printer driver interaction bugs in Lightroom.

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