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Get Rid of Unused Printer Drivers

By default, Mac OS X installs a very large array of printer drivers. This is helpful in some ways because you can typically just plug in a printer and have it work with no additional effort. However, those drivers take up a fair amount of space. Because you’ll probably use only a handful of them, deleting the rest can recover a lot of space. Printer drivers and support files are stored in the Printers folder inside the Library folder at the root level of your hard drive. You can remove these manually, but it is safer to use Printer Setup Repair because manually deleting some printer files can damage Mac OS X’s printing system.

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