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Overview

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 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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Make sure to substitute the name of the local administrator account above it is named something other than administrator. This also allows users to unpause printers themselves in case of a paper jam.

If your IT group uses a local administrator account called "administrator" you can use the public Landesk package named "OIT - Allow All Mac Users to control printers PUBLIC"