Best practice for designing a print enviroment​?

Greetings,
If there is a better location for this, please let me know.
Goal:
Redesign and redeploy my print enviroment with best practices in mind.
Overview: VMWare enviroment running 2008 R2,  with ~200 printers. I have a majority of HP printers ranging from 10 years old to brand new. Laserjets, MFPs, OfficeJets, etc.. etc.. in addition to Konica, Xerox, and Savin copiers. Many of our printer models aren't support in 2008, let alone x64.
Our future goals include eprint services, as well as a desire to manage print quality, and consumition levels through something like Web Jetadmin.
Presently we have a 2003 x86 server running our very old printers and until 6 months ago the rest on a single 2008r2 x64 server. We ended up not giving it the attention of detail it needed and the drivers became very cluttered, this lead to a single UPD PCL6 update that ended up corrupting several drivers across the UPD PCL 5 and 6 spectrum. At that time we brought up a second 2008r2 server and began to migrate those affected. In some instances we were forced to manually delete the drivers off of the clients system32->Spool->Driver and reinstall.
I haven't had much luck finding good best practice information and figured I'd ask. Some documents I came across suggested that I should isolate a Universal driver to a single server, such as 3 servers for PCL5, PCL6, and PS. Then there is the need to deal with my various copiers.
I appreciate your advice, thank you!
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