Traditionally, installing printers on both Windows and Macs requires administrative credentials. In some cases, departments may want to allow users to install printers without administrator
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privileges.
Allowing regular user accounts to install or remove printers can eliminate some of the ticket work of managing printers by allowing users to install their own local printers (especially at home), remove old printers no longer available, or install printers from a print server, all without the assistance of IT.
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- Disable "Point and Print Restrictions" via GPO or Local Security Policy (Administrative Templates/Printers)
- Enable "Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup classes" on the following classes:(Administrative Templates/System/Driver Installation)
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Disabling "Point and Print Restrictions" allows users to install printers from print servers. Alternatively, instead of disabling point and print restrictions, you can enable it and specific specific print servers, although users would then still need administrative privileges to install printers from other print servers.
Allowing users to install drivers for the above device classes enables them to install local printers.
Mac solutions
On OS X based computers, the simplest solution is adding everyone to the lpadmin group. This enables regular user accounts to add, remove and modify printers.
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