Colour profiling with Canon ip6600d

Hello can anyone please help me?
I am using the above printer on Canon Photo Paper Plus Glossy with Canon original inks.
If I let PS (CS6) manage the profile and set the printer driver colour correction to NONE the driver set itself back to Driver Matching setting straight away. The result is extremely saturated colours in some areas.
If I dont allow PS to manage the profile but let the driver do it automatically the colour results are much better but... surely it would be better to have PS managing the colour profiles.
Why does it keep changing the setting please?
Sorry if I have not explained this clearly.
Trish

That sounds like a bug in the driver -- when the application is managing color, the driver should disable it's color controls (and get out of the way).

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