Printing to a i560 on a windows PC

I have set up my mac so that i can print to my canon i560.
Seeing as there is no driver for my canon in the printer setup utility i have gone through the list and printed a page for each driver under Canon.
I found that the s800 driver printed the document layout properly, but was a gray scale compared to some other drivers which were too small but had the right colours.
Is there any way i can change my printouts to have a full colour scale apart from PrintFab which puts their logo on the page unless you have the full version, which i dont.
I appreciate your help. This is a very annoying problem.
Thanks

The linuxprinting.org site indicates that the s800 is similar to the BJC-8200 which is the recommended driver for the i560. So it looks like you have selected the best option for your printer. As Greg mentions, there are a wide variety of color tuning settings available to you with the Gutenprint drivers.
The other possibility would be to try a redirected Windows printer. That might give you better quality. You would have to try it and see what results you get. The standard referece for setting up redirected printers is found here.
Matt
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