delete printer

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, mri1397.
If I understand your post correctly, you'd like to delete a printer from your MacBook Pro with OS X Mavericks. I'd like to help.
Follow these steps:

Remove a printer

If you no longer use a printer, you can delete it from your list of available printers.

1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Printers & Scanners.

   
   

2. Select the printer in the list, then click Remove .

If you delete the printer that’s set as your default printer, OS X selects another printer as your default. To set a different printer as your default, choose it from the pop-up menu in Printers & Scanners preferences.

For more information see the full article here:
OS X Yosemite: Add or remove a printer
Let us know if that resolves this issue for you.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Take care.

You may be able to select the Printer in the list, click on it, then use the Delete key.

Read through this article as it may help to set up the printer again, to resolve issue.

• Resolve printer issues on your Mac - Apple Support

See below from article (read full support page for context)

These steps might resolve printing issues that have no other clear cause:

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Printers & Scanners.
2. Select your printer or scanner in the list of devices, then click Delete (–) to remove it from the list.
3. Follow the steps in the previous section to add your printer again.
4. If the issue persists, Control-click anywhere in the list of devices in Printers & Scanners preferences. Then choose “Reset printing system” from the shortcut menu that appears. Resetting the printing system causes all printers and scanners—including their queues, jobs, and custom settings—to be removed from Printers & Scanners preferences.
5. Follow the steps in the previous section to add your device again.

If the issue remains unresolved, take these final steps to remove any currently installed printer drivers that could be causing the issue:

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Printers & Scanners.
2. Control-click anywhere in the list of devices, then choose “Reset printing system” from the shortcut menu that appears.
3. From the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder. Type

   /Library/Printers/

   and click Go.
4. The Printers folder opens. Choose Edit > Select All to select all items in the folder.
5. Choose File > New Folder with Selection to put all of the selected items into a new folder named New Folder With Items. To save storage space, you can delete the New Folder With Items folder after completing the remaining steps.
6. Follow the steps in the previous section once more.

If the printing issue persists, contact the printer manufacturer for support.

~ Not sure if this may be helpful, however among my Macs one runs OS X Mavericks 10.9.5.

Good luck & happy trails! 🙂