Is it possible to remove Adobe PDF 8.0 from the list in "Add Printers"

When I add a printer on my system, there is a printer named "Adobe PDF 8.0" on the Add Printer list. I believe that this is a remnant left over from previous versions of the operating system (from Leopard or so). Can this item be deleted from this list? It isn't functional at all, and I'd rather not have it cluttering up the list. I've searched through the system looking for anything that could be causing this item to be listed there, but there appears to be no .PPD file or any entry in a .plist file that I can find. I've seen other people asking about this printer, but more from the perspective of "how to get it working" or "how do I print to PDFs now?". That isn't my question. I just want to nuke this item from my "Add Printers" list like it never happened. Thanks for any leads you can offer.
See screen shot below if you are confused as to what I am talking about. The top "Adobe PDF 8.0" is from my computer. The second one is something someone is incorrectly sharing from their computer (which I will remove as soon as I get access to it).

I tried manually removing some files but still the Adobe PDF 8 appeared in the Add Printers > Default view.
I then ran the Adobe Acrobat uninstaller and this successfully stopped the Adobe PDF 8 "printer" from appearing. Thankfully the Uninstaller also created a log file that I have posted below showing all that was removed from the Mac. Note that you probably don't have all the files listed, especially if you have already removed Acrobat 8 from this Mac, but if you remove the files that are remaining then this will be sure to stop the printer from appearing.
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/PDFMakerLib
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/PDFMakerLib
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/PDFMakerLib
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Startup/Excel/PDFMaker.xla
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Startup/PowerPoint/PDFMaker.ppa
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Startup/Word/PDFMaker.dot
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro/uninstall.log
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/com.adobe.distiller/uninstall.log
/Users/testuser/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/Acrobat
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/Acrobat Distiller Prefs
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.acrobat.80.sh.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.print.AdobePDF8
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro8.0.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist
Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro_x86_8.0.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro_ppc_8.0.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat8.0.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.distiller.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.distiller8.plist
/Users/testuser/Library/Printers/Adobe PDF 8.0.app
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Adobe Acrobat Professional.app
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Acrobat Distiller.app
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/ReadMe.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/ReadMeJ.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/ReadMeCT.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/ReadMeCS.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Læs-mig.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Leesmij.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Bitte lesen.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Ouvrez-moi.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Léame.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Leggimi.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Leiame.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Les Meg.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/LueMinut.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Viktigt.html
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/ReadMeK.html
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer.plist
/Library/Printers/PPD Plugins/AdobePDFPDE800.plugin
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/ADPDF8.PPD
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ja.lproj/ADPDF8J.PPD
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/ko.lproj/ADPDF8K.PPD
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/ADPDF8CS.PPD
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/zh_TW.lproj/ADPDF8CT.PPD
/usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf800

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