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Pro M254dw
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

The colour managing menu of this colour laser has options which include standard sRGB Adobe RGB 1998 and Photo Adobe RGB 1998 (this latter one no idea why they have two adobergb1998's)?  Anyway, an option in that dialogue is the simple word "NONE"  I had assumed that this meant No Colour Management so that the application you are working from controls this, not the printer.  To my shock and horror after many tests, it literally means NONE, and NOT, no colour management other than giving you nonsense colours.  So I am posting this to find out what on earth HP are thinking  by having this option.  All inkjet printers ahve a No Colour Management Policy option, a must for DTP software applications.  S is it not possible to turn this thing off perhaps behind the scenes somewhere?

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The M254 is fully supported by the HP UPD driver, if you have not tried that driver I would. My screen capture was from a UPD installation, although not from a 254 I admit.

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Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but if you check under printing preferences>advanced you can disable Image color management or chose between host system or printer

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No sorry.  This is what would be so nice.  But the m254dw is so utterly basic in its colour management.  I have nothing like this at all.  The only thing that made sense was that silly little word "NONE"  but it does not disable colour management in the printer, no idea what it is for, so annoying.  

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The M254 is fully supported by the HP UPD driver, if you have not tried that driver I would. My screen capture was from a UPD installation, although not from a 254 I admit.

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Continued thanks for your help.  Drivers for me are a nightmare, I would not know which one of the following to download:

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-universal-print-driver-series-for-windows/503548...

It's bad enough that windows lists two drivers for the laser in two different places,  I remember calling hp help, but they were absolutely impossible, never could talk to a real person to help me, so I gave up, until now.  How exactly can I know for certain

1.  Which driver I have

2. How can I install it a new one?

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I should add that I have updated the driver from device management.  That aslo unlike other drivers there is no option to roll back in the properties panel of this printer.  I also sourced HP doc resources and found that  UPD can not be installed in my printer  if you scroll down this page to footnote 5, which is what I have at the moment. https://support.hp.com/ie-en/document/c04324001#AbT5

So what I find so confusing is what driver do I have installed:  This is what I updated to 8.0.1. 1329. 6508  windows 64 bit PCL6.

The printer dialogue panel is the same as before, no option to turn off printer colour management

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