Printerdrivers in software update way to bloated (big)

I have a Canon Pixma IP3000 printer with a dedicated driver that weighs around 6Mb. And it works fine in Leopard. But today I got the message in software update that a new driver was found that weighs around 230mb. This seems to me like its a driver for all Canons printers and not just my model, and that it is the same gigantic driver as if you install the driver from the Leopard disc.
This is quit annoying as I don't want to fill up my computer with monstrous drivers for printers I don't even use. Why can't it just show updates only for my specific model?
I installed the driver to see if anything was updated since I'm going to do a clean install of Leopard anyway, and guess what. The driver had the exact same revision number as before I updated. So now I have 230Mb worth of useless drivers on my MBPs harddrive. Unnecessary!

Go to /Library/Printers/Lexmark/Drivers and remove the ones you don't need.

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