Domain user or local administrator permission

We have a windows 2008 R2 domain environment with windows 7 clients. Users have domain user permission.
Security wise domain user rights is the way to go. But we have a lot of users with notebooks, with multifunctional printers at home. We configured a GPO to install printers, but they can't run setup to install the printer/scan software.
Also some notebook user need to install/upgrade work related software.
I thought of making the users power user.
Or local amdin user, with UAC turned on. But we had issues with UAC turned on a year ago(can't remember what it was). I could also work with GPO's, Software Restriction Policies, Applocker. But that's to much Admin overhead. I,m looking for a solution that
I and the users would benefit from.I like to know how other Admins deal with his
Thanx

Let me try to be more clearly.
At the office we don't have any issues with installing printers drivers. We have about 100 users with laptops that need to install the multifunctional printers software(not drivers) at home. For most of them, installing the printer driver is
no problem, because of a printer GPO's we configured.
"Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup classes" and "Point and Print Restrictions" GPO's.
So we don't have issues with domain users
installing printer drivers, but most of them have multifunctional devices at home. All different brands(canon, hp, Epson etc). As a domain user they don't have the permission to run the setup to install the scanner and printer software. They
only can install the printer drivers, because of the GPO.
This is one of the issues we have with domain users permissions. From security perspective, domain users permission is the way to go, but if does have its challenges. I don't want to install all the different software for those users, and on the other hand
they don't want to rely on IT department for things they can do them self.
For installing printerscanner software(not only drivers), the printer need to connected to the laptop. Users are not going to bring there multifunctional device to the office for me to install the software.
So it's more the experience of other administrators I'm looking for, how to deal with giving users more permission to install or upgrade some software, but still have the feeling that IT department is in control of those laptops.
Thanx

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installation but it does show how important this is.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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