I have done an erase and install but my printer is there

Hello all,
I have installed Leopard with an erase and install and come across that there is some printer information. Automatically, Leopard has the Photosmart C6100 as the printer and I cannot remove that. Why is that?
Thank you

After the Leopard install, Leopard looks and configures any USB or Bonjour compatible printer. This is very efficient and a time saver. It detected yours because you must have that printer connected either through USB or Bonjour. What's the matter with that?

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