Printer: appears in duplicates in print dialog box

I have 6 active printers for my mac. Lately they are showing up in multiples in the print dalog box of Illustrator. This is the only application that does this. Everything prints fine, so far. Just wonder what this means, why it's doing this, and how to fix it.  See image attached.
I've tried a few things: trashed illustrator preferences, trashed com.adobe.illustrator.plist file, trashed com.apple.printpreference.plist, and repaired disk permissions via disk utility.
Any ideas would be great! thanks!

Thanks for the speedy reply. Tried that and it didn't do the trick. I think what's happening may have something to do with what I saw when I tried your posting:
Notice that the same printers which were appearing 3 times in Illustrator are listed here 3 times also. Two are "shared printer" and one is "apple talk". What does this mean? Worth "fixing"?

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