Giving user-specific friendly name to network printers

I was referred to this forum from
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-desktop/giving-user-specific-friendly-name-to-network/f759c9d6-faa5-4f9a-96c9-b105fd418b20
I'm a mere user in an enterprise situation. The printers all have cryptic names (alphanumeric strings) which I'm sure have meaning from the perspective of infrastructure management, but absolutely no meaning for the purpose of a mere user trying to
keep track of which printer on the computer corresponds to which physical computer out in the cube farm. Is there a way for a mere user to create an alias name for the network printer? If it involves administrators of any sort, it will likely not
happen, so a solution that requires only user privileges is preferred. However, I can retain the information for a procedure that requires administrator privileges so that I can opportunistically ask them to do it when the circumstances are right.

No you can't create a local printer that uses a Local Port in the format
\\printserver\printshare on XP as a standard user. This task requires admin access on XP
You would need Windows Vista and greater.
You will not be able to rename the printer connections name in any Windows operating system unless you are admin on the print server at which point you would break existing connection to the server.
A local printer is the better way to go in Windows 7 or 8.
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