You should never be using absolute colorimetric unless you are producing a single (or several) color company logo or something like that where there are no neutral colors for the media to show through.  An example of that might be printing a Kodak logo where it is getting trimmed and you must get the shade of yellow exactly right and you don't care about media color.  Just remember: "absolute" colorimetric should "absolutely" never be used to print photos.  

  It is already known that PhotoShop's absolute colorimetric rendering doesn't work.  If you try to print a photo with absolute colorimetric in PhotoShop, it actually uses relative colorimetric.  At least that's what it 
appears to do.  One thing I know for sure: it doesn't work in PhotoShop.
Mike