Cannot match screen color to photo print color on Canon 970

I am a new iMac user, but have quite a bit of experience with the PC. I was able to get good color match between my PC and my Canon 970. But I have been unable to get the same match now that I am using an iMac. I am using the same inks and paper (canon photo paper pro). All the printer functions work, and plain paper printing is fine. I also cannot find any color profiles for my printer in the colorsync app under the devices tab (although the printer is listed). I did a straight install of the printer software as it came from the box (this was all I had to do with the PC to have the colors match). Please advise of the solution, and if you direct me to any files, etc., please also tell me how/where to access them (I am still struggling to find things in the iMac world). Thanks.

Hello Jerry,
A number of color profiles are installed by the MP970 driver installer. You can have a look at these profiles by opening ColorSync, expanding Other and then /Library/Printers/Canon/BJPrinter. By selecting each you will see the different lab plot associated with the profile. Now all the profiles are related to papers, such as Fine Art Photo Rag, GL 2/3 (gloss papers), MP (matte paper), PR1/2/3 and SP2/3 (Canon photo papers).
To invoke the profile within an application, you select the appropriate paper type from the Quality & Media menu. You should also select to print 'a top-quality photo' in the same menu. Also, via the Color Options menu, ensure the 'Color Correction' setting is set to 'Driver Matching'.
In the case of iPhoto 08, you don't have the same options. All you can do is open the Presets menu and select one of the available paper types.
PaHu

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