Help setting up color management profiles on mac

I've downloaded the lasted drivers for my Canon MP620 printer, and installed them. But when I go to color management in the print module and click on managed by printer and then select others, the Canon drivers are not there. Wondering if I'm missing a step here for getting the Canon profiles to the right place. I'm using mac os 10.6
Thanks

gme109 wrote:
I've downloaded the lasted drivers for my Canon MP620 printer, and installed them. But when I go to color management in the print module and click on managed by printer and then select others, the Canon drivers are not there. Wondering if I'm missing a step here for getting the Canon profiles to the right place. I'm using mac os 10.6
Thanks
From my little experience with Canon 'multi' printers, I would forget printing out of Lightroom with anything other than Managed by Printer. The Others you mention are profiles necessary for allowing Lightroom to manage the printing. I've set up two Canon multi models (MX860 & MP560). Neither managed to produce decent prints using Managed by Lightroom - largely because of the way that the Canon driver controls are configured. I talked at length with Canon (UK) about a work around, but in the end they gave up. That's the downside. The upside is that both printers produced great quality prints using the Solution Menu software that comes with the printers.
Unless, of course, someone knows better.

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