Removing a Printer

You might want to remove a printer setup for several reasons:

• The physical printer has been removed from service.

• You don’t want to use a particular network printer anymore.

• You have several definitions of a physical printer using different default settings, and you want to remove one of them.

• You have a nonfunctioning or improperly functioning printer setup and want to remove it and start over by running the Add Printer Wizard.

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The removal process removes only the printer icon in the Devices and Printers window. The related driver files and font files are not deleted from your hard disk. Therefore, if you ever ...

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