How Do I Delete/Edit Gutenprint Drivers That Are Bundled With Yosemite

The Yosemite Update includes the Cups+Gutenprint package, I believe it is v5.2. I have an old epson printer, so none of these drivers are applicable.
I have already gone into Library > Printers (folders) and deleted the Unwanted Printer Driver mfrs. folders that were there.
After these have been deleted, If I go into the Printers & Scanners Preferences and select my printer, (in order to access and check the Printer Software Menu List again), There are still these remaining drivers:
Demo Label Printer, Epson 24-Pin and 9 pin Series, HP DeskJet and LaserJet Series, PCL 4/6, Intellitech IntelliBar Label Printer, 2.0, Oki 24 and 9 Pin series, Zebra, CPCL Label Printer, EPL1, EPL2, ZPL Label printers.
Where are these located in the Yosemite os, and how can I delete these? Can they be deleted?
If terminal commands are needed can someone please list them in order to remove these drivers or driver listings?
There has to be some way to edit the Print Software Menu List to eradicate these existing Drivers and or listings.
I am trying to get rid of clutter of all unwanted driver listings for the one or two printers I may want to use.
Thanks very much.
Michael Breskin
(michebre)

michebre wrote:
I then installed the latest GutenPrint Driver Package 5.2.10a and found a relevant driver for my printer, which works great!
I want to get rid of the remaining 200 or so extra drivers from other mfrs. that aren't relevant to me.
Apparently Cups+Gutenprint installs its Print drivers in Yosemite in another place other than the usual Library > Printers. There are no Printer drivers in this location because I deleted/trashed them all prior to installing the updated Cups+GutenPrint Driver 5.2.10a package.
I am trying to find where GutenPrint installs these packaged drivers to., what location on my Yosemite Hard drive in order to be able to go in and remove all of them that are not relevant.
If you are using the Gutenprint drivers, you will see a lot of other printers being supported.  Gutenprint supports somewhere around 1200 printers.  The Gutenprint package does not install a "driver" for each and every printer.  It uses a combination of about 3 files in total to produce a PPD for your printer.  You cannot delete any of those files.  And there is really no need to do so.  They aren't that large.  The total size for the three files that are used to create the PPDs is about 5MB.
Some of the other drivers you mentioned in your original post are actually part of the printing system CUPS.
EDIT:  None of the files that Gutenprint installs are in the /Library/Printers folder.  All files are in the hierarchy of the system under the /usr/libexec/cups and /usr/share/gutenprint directories.   They are all hidden from normal use.  Please do not try to delete or edit any of these files unless you are sure you know what you are doing.  If you want to delete the Gutenprint drivers, there is an uninstaller that comes in the same disk image as the drivers.

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