How to turn off printer color management

I've exhausted places to ask this question. Spent an hour with Canon without a definitive answer.
I'm printing from Photoshop CS2.
OS 10.5 Leopard.
Canon IP3600
My colors are not printing as bright and are rather dull and somewhat dark.
I have been using a Canon I360 for over 4 years with great results, but it died and had to be trashed.
I've followed all the advice for getting good quality printing except the one elusive item.
"Disable Color Management in the printer driver"
Canon thinks it's clicking on Color Sync which will turn off the color management in the printer, they're not sure. There should be a item to turn it off, but there is none.
Can anyone please guide me on turing off color management in the printer driver.
Your help is apprecitated.
Thanks.
PS: I use a Huey Pro to calibrate my iMac monitor, however the only problem is that when it asks to have the contrast set at 50%, there no control for this. I can set the brightness but not the contrast.
I thought that setting the brightness should get me close to having my monitor calibrated.
In the past I was getting with less then 10% of a match between my prints and monitor, now it's way off.
Is there a way of stripping all the setting and starting over with a step by step guide that someone can furnish for me to follow?
Thanks again.

There are two settings within the Canon driver located under Color Mode, ColorSync or Vendor Matching. If you don't want to use the driver's built-in colour management, then select ColorSync. However you may not get your desired results as a lot will depend on the CMS used by the application.
The blokes in my office that know a thing or two about colour management reckon for the consumer model printers you should let them manage the colours. There are a number of colour profiles within your printer driver that are related to certain paper stocks. For example, when you print a photo you should select a photo paper, such as photo paper pro glossy which has the widest gamut. This will give you the best results. But if you select plain paper and print on photo paper, then you are not letting the printer reach its targets.
In summary, the three main settings I use to print brighter colours;
1. Color Matching > Vendor Matching
2. Quality & Media > Media Type > Photo paper (assuming you are printing on photo paper)
3. Quality & Media > Print Quality > High
If you still want to tweak the output then you can open the Color Options menu and manually adjust the colours and brightness.
HTH
Pahu

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