Resolved My printer is ghosted out after uninstall. How do I get rid of this?

I uninstalled the software for the printer and removed the printer device. The printer is still showing in the list of devices and printers, but greyed out.

When I remove the greyed out printer from the list in devices, it comes back. How do I get rid of this greyed out printer in the list of devices?

Epson Workforce 500 printer.

 

Hi Evan. I checked under printer que and this is what's there:



Should I do anything with these?

If I edit the registry, I'm using a local printer not network, I would follow all the steps and then just choice the last step listed for local printers. Is that correct?

 

While I was waiting for your response I decided to Rclick greyed out printer and choose to view current jobs. There was a clean nozzle and another maintenance job in there.

I chose to cancel the jobs. It said deleting but it didn't seem to be doing anything. I tried again and got an error message, but when I went back to check, the printer was gone from the list of printers.

Should I proceed with registry edit you listed above still? I'm going to install a different printer.

 

If it is gone as you say it is, leave the registry alone.

 

Thanks for your help Evan. You're a wealth of information!

Thanks for your input MrBill.