Cannot disable color management in printer preferences dialog

Hi,
I'm evaluating PSE11 on a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.5.  I'm trying to print to an HP Officejet 6500 for which I have an ICC profile.  When I set Color Handling to "Photoshop Elements Manages Color" I receive the reminder that I must ensure that the printer isn't doing that.  After selecting the profile, I go to the Print dialog.  In the Color Matching tab I can select either Color Sync or Vendor Matching.  If I select Color Sync, I am presented with a list of profiles, one of which I'm expected to select, but no option to select none.  (No, Automatic doesn't mean that the printer performs no color matching!)  If I select Vendor Matching, then in the Paper Type/Quality tab there's a drop down Color Options, but there, too, there's no option to turn of color management in the printer.
This inability to turn off color management in the printer would usually preclude making a profile for it, since the profile targets must be printed without the printer performing color management.  However, the company that made them for me supplies the targets as TIFFs, and Adobe has a utility, Adobe Color Print Utility (ACPU), which somehow manages to circumvent the problem.  Is there something like ACPU either built into PSE11 or that can be plugged into it that will turn off color management?
Regards,
Richard

Your printer model may not permit the print driver software to be turned off. On higher end printers this option is normally found in the printer properties (color tab) which will have the choice of selecting Application Manages Color or grayscale printing. I’ve not come across ACPU for Elements.

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