Aperture printing

I have problems printing from Aperture to my Canon Selphy 510 dyesub printer. This printer does not come with a .icc profile but I get very good results when I print from Photoshop assigning the sRGB space. How can I assign the sRGB profile in the printer dialogue box in Aperture? Aperture does not display the sRGB profile in this dialogue (although it shows all my other .icc profiles that I have for use with other printers). If I use the "system managed" option the prints are too dark. Of note I am unable to assign the sRGB profile via the colorsync utility to this printer. Any workaround?

Thanks, saba01, but unfortunately the Selphy doesn't support the Color Management in the printer settings (that menu option doesn't appear with this printer). What I really would like to do is to choose sRGB in Aperture as a Color Sync Profile but for whatever reason Aperture doesn't show this profile.

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