win 7 colour managment / calibration for printer

[alan5151]

I was trying to tweek the colour photo printing on my canon pixma MG6650. I discovered several threads about using the windows calibration , lots of stuff about profiles.. (Win help & support > change colour management text ) >> use "advance tab" and "change sys defaults" etc). Whilst the printer prints documents fine , but when I try and print a jpg photo I get a matrix of tiny images with differing c/m/y settings (eg +10, -5) .
How do I get rid of this ?? I cannot see how ! At present under "adv" everything is set to sys default , when you go , as suggested, to "change system defaults", under "display calibration" the "calibrate display " box is "set" ie in black type and the adjacent "use win display calibration" is greyed out and unticked. But its a bit confusing cos in the device tab I obvs have the choice of monitor or printer , but then it is not clear what I'm adjusting in the advanced tab. thanks

 

[alan5151]

Just to update this. After a few exchanges with canon support , two things emerged. a) They seemed to recognise the "thumbnail matrix" as coming from their drivers , but b) could not offer any explanation or solution other than print from their own photo management software (image garden) rather than just "print" from microsoft windows photo viewer. Weirdly that WORKED
As a check I moved the 6650 to our other PC , and it worked fine printing from Windows. I also connected our other printer (pixma 5750) to this PC and that worked fine as well from windows, so its def the 6650 drivers interfacing with windows somehow.
So I have a "work around" if not a solution.