icc profiles for printers

After helping me dad out with a few issues with his colour management. I had a look at mine . Although when i print the pics are not far away from what i see on screen i thought could i get it any better. i am currently reading ben willmore book for cs3 as thats what i use.
in the colour management section he saying about icc profile for printer and saving it here on windows xp so photoshop knows where to find it .
windows/system32/spool​/drivers/colour
when i look here i can find adobe 1998 icc for my canon ip4500 but no more for the printer.
had a look on disc that came with printer cant find any and couldnt find any on canon website.
so have i got enough and stop worrying or can i get some for specific paper as to do photo on i use canon photo paper plus glossy.
does any body know if i can get a profile for this paper anywhere?
cheers shane

Have a look in the link from my sig, about printing and color management.

thanks for that allot of reding there.

i was back down my dads last night and was having an issue on his imac running cs3 when go to print in colour mangement section where you select printer profile there is nothing for his printer in drop down menu . he is using epson photo R340 . How do we go about getting profile in there for him?
any help would be much apreciated.
cheers shane

In the link from my sig, there's a link to "printing with Canon printers" (or something like that). Canon Profiles have not too descriptive names like PR1, SP1 and so on.
They probably came on a disk with the printer.
Otherwise, you might be able to download them from Canon.

hi i found the canon ones for me thanks.
but its the one for my dad his epson R340 on an imac i can download latest drivers for him but then cant find printer profiles ?
cheers shane

Oops. misread

RedRiver has profiles for that Epson and their papers: http://www.redrivercat​alog.com/profiles/r320​profiles.htm

It seems that Epsons are installed with the drivers: Click.

They don't tell you the same about the Mac version however....

But you'll need the new driver anyhow if the iMac is a recent one:

These two were 1st and 3rd hit when googling for "epson r320 profiles"