Deploying printers with Group Policy Preferences is the superior way to deploy your printers. Here is the great thing about deploying printers this way: you don’t need anything special and it can deploy IP, local, or shared printers!
As long as your clients support Group Policy Preferences (which runs on XP SP3 +) and you have a print server, you can deploy printers with Group Policy Preferences. Before you deploy your first printer, you need to answer two questions first: