i have a canon s9000 i use ICC profiles for different photo papers from here
http://wandb.com/icc.htm
there is full instructions on how to use the profiles within each zip file
i was finding it difficult to get some types of paper to print correctly it was allways a bit of a hit n miss affair using the canon print preview to estimate how the print was going to to turn out but since using the ICC profiles from the above link i get a lot more accurate results especially on kodak photo paper which i was having a hell of a time with
it says for print driver ver 1.52 but i use the latest driver ver 1.61 and there fine