Identifying Multiple printers with unique name?

I support an office staff of 40 users that share 15 Officejet 100 L411a printers. When users connect a printer by USB, the computer will create a new printer with the default name "HP Officejet 100 Mobile L411" printer if that printer hasn't connected to that computer before. If the printer has been connected before, a new printer is not created.
Many users have multiple copies of printers all with the same printer name "HP Officejet 100 Mobile L411". The printer that is connected is highlighted; all other printers are grayed out.
My users want to know which printers they've checked out before when they pick up a printer. The users can rename the printers manually but most don't want to do that. I can rename them for the users, but that's a lot of users and a lot of printers. Either way, the next time they get a printer they haven't used before they'll get the default name.
I'd like to know if there is a way to set the printer's firmware to create a unique name when the printer is created by using the serial number or another designation I could enter.
For example, I'd like to have "HP Officejet 100 #MY1555AAQQ" or "HP OfficeJet 100 Purple #12" show up as the printer name. Is there any way to do that?

Our requirement is...
Yep, had this requirement as well.
All these various user name collisions and worse is different IDs for the same person can be solved relatively easily by IdM.
But best practice is still to remove the collisions and use unique IDs. Same goes for deleting users (dont do it).
Good luck.
Cheers,
Julius

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