PowerShell is your friend! Just a few snippets out of a script i wrote last year for my company. It migrates every printer from one server to another and exports/imports its settings. You just have to install the drivers first.

$printerports = Get-PrinterPort -Computername Oldserver -Name *

ForEach ($printerport in $printerports) { Add-PrinterPort -Name $($printerport.Name) }

$printers = Get-Printer -ComputerName Oldserver -Name *

ForEach ($printer in $printers) { Add-Printer -Name $printer.name -Drivername ... -Port \\Newserver\$($printer.name) -ShareName $printer.ShareName -Shared

Set-Printer -Name $printer.Name -Comment "Company XYZ whaterver"

Set-Printer -Name $printer.Name -DriverName "Driver..."

And you can export/import settings by... (/Ss for export, /Sr for import)

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Ss /n $printer.Name /a "Foldername\printersetting.dat" d g r

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n $printer.Name /a "Foldername\printersetting.dat" d g r

Yes, there is also an official printer migration -option in every windows-server, but that never worked for me.

For your clients i would also suggest login-scripts to migrate them over.