Removing printers from OS 9 (Classic)

Hello everybody!
I got a little problem. We do have many printers on an classic-system. Installing is easy but how do I remove them.
I asked an specialist from an apple support company but he also did not know an answer.
Did anybody know an answer for this question!
Thanks a lot!

Hi, cko77 -
For those printers which use LaserWriter 8 as the OS 9 printing software, go into the Preferences folder in System Folder, locate and open the folder named Printing Prefs. In that folder is another folder named Parsed PPD Folder - throw away any files in there for printers you do not want to see listed.
You can them remove the same items from the Printer Descriptions folder in the Extensions folder in System Folder.
To remove printer-specific software, go into the Extensions folder. Set that folder to List view if it is not already that way (use the View menu to set that), then click the column header/name "Kind" - this will resort the list by kind of file. Then look for the group whose "kind" is Chooser Extension. Remove the specific items for the printers you do not want to have available.

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