Why do all printers show up as greyed out, including the P1606dn, on Windows 8.1?

I have a number of Windows 8.1 machine in our home. All were installed off the web install. But one machine, a SONY Vaio Flip 13, gives me issues when trying to print. As you can see from the screen capture,  all installed printer's icons are greyed out? If I launch any application such as Notepad or Word or Photoshop, no printer is showing. it is, as though no printers are installed or connected on this system. Beats me.

Found the reason: Windows Print Spooler is inactive. Lauching CMD.EXE in administrator mode and typing in "net start spooler" resulted in Error no 5, Access denied. I had to hit the right mouse button on the Computer icon, to navigate to Services and locate Print Spooling, wich was stopped. For some reason. From there, i was able to Start spooling services and instantly got all my printers icons back, showing "normal".
Now, how do I get rid of the extra instances of the P1606 printers? I only need one, really.
Do I simply "remove" the extra ones?
BTW, the printer driver was downloaded off the printer through its web interface. Not sure that this somehow caused the problem? But I am tempted to remove all traces of the P1606dn installation and install through the 140MB "normal" driver package?

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