I am totally perplexed... photo printing help suggestions with Canon

I am a recent convert from the PC world... been using my iMac for a little over 6-7 weeks now. For the most part I love it but still run across a few bumps in the road. This is one of them...
Before I switched to my iMac I was printing some fairly good photos on my Canon IP6700D. I used Photoshop Elements 5 and Adobe Lightroom. I have since upgraded to PSE 6 for Mac and Lightroom 2 for Mac. I have also tested Aperture and printed from iPhoto.
The photos I am printing now are pretty lousy... I have tried various settings. What I am missing... or cannot find... are the printer preferences that were easily accessed in the PC world. The preferences gave me a huge number of settings and profile options.
Am I missing something easy... or is this just a difficult process.
Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions.
Ronnie

PAHU wrote:
prstewart wrote:
...I have hit the triangle and I get some options like quality and media, layout and a few others. Is that what i should be seeing.
Yes, that is exactly what you want to see. Most of the colour management settings are controlled via these menus.
When going to the printers and fax in preferences I can't get ink levels and it only offers basic maintenence.
To do the maintenance, you need to open the printer queue and then selecting the Utility icon in the printer queue pane - note we try not to use the Window
I do photography so I want to get the best reults from the printer but I can't find the options for me to select the highest quality print.
The paper presets determine the gamuts used for printing. These are the simplest way to get the best output from the printer. But if you need to modify your output, then the Color Options menu is the place to tweak your output.
PaHu
To do the maintenance, you need to open the printer queue and then selecting the Utility icon in the printer queue pane - note we try not to use the Window
I don't seem to have much in the way of options through utility. I also cannot retrieve ink level information??? should i be able to see that?
With regards to confirming printing options and the interface, by hitting the triangle i get the list - layout, quality and media etc. That is what i use and within those headings i would then see the options that are specific to my canon printer. They are not generic. I don't have a heading 'printer features' which a friend has with a different printer(should i have that heading??) but for me to produce higher quality prints/ or lower for that matter i would select the paper type and it automatically bump up or reduce quality accordingly.
Sorry if i'm coming across a bit dumb here.

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