How big is your printers directory?

[aphex]

Much to my surprise, the printer directory in Leopard (for me at least) was 3.17gb in size. Seems a tad large, no?

Its located at; /Library/Printers/

Is everyone else's this large?

 

[Kmax82]

Yea.. it takes up a good chunk of the Leopard install. I usually deselect it at installation. Plus a good majority of the drivers that it contains I don't use.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
Yea.. it takes up a good chunk of the Leopard install. I usually deselect it at installation. Plus a good majority of the drivers that it contains I don't use.

I think i might just zip up the folders I don't need and throw them on my external.

 

[KeithP]

Mine is 1.42 GB (2008 Mac Pro). But I did a fresh install when I originally got the machine and deselected most of the printer drivers.

-Keith

 

[FP]

Is there a way to remove the extra files?

Mine is 3.8G

 

[rikadik]

Mine is 468 KB. *shrugs*

 

[Chris27]

188 KB

 

[aphex]

Well it compressed down to 1.4gb, so i threw it on my external and got it down to 400 kb

 

[Tyranicus]

4KB.

I don't have a printer, so I didn't install any drivers.

 

[bearxor]

150MB. I deselect the printer drivers when I install OS X, as well as the alternate languages.

Even though I need to print to several HP printers, if I install just the HP printers, it's still like 900MB. So I've just downloaded the drivers for the printers I need and just install them after a reformat.

 

[alevasseur14]

Mine is a whopping 0KB. I never use my Macbook to print so I removed all of them during the install. Hah.

 

[Ness]

Can the directory just be backed up to an external and deleted safely? Are PDF printing options stored here?

 

[keeleysam]

1.3MB, the only printer I directly print to is a Brother that the computer automatically downloaded the driver for, and I just use Generic PostScript for everything else.

 

[AnthroAndStargate]

Can someone verify if PDF options are here? Im getting ready to format and ALWAYS pdf print or print to my cannon which i have to install the driver for anyway (even though apple sells it on their site lol!)

 

[Tyranicus]

You can print to PDF without installing the printer drivers. I know this for a fact.

 

[Ness]

Just got home and checked... there is an Adobe driver in there for me.

Under PPD Plugins

Might be directly related to have Creative Suite/Distiller installed. Will report back if there are problems, but that file is the only one I'm going to keep.

 

[Tyranicus]

OS X does not use Adobe to handle PDFs at all, so it must be from Adobe software you have installed.