New print driver impacted existing printers - why?

Hi friends,
Today I added a new driver to our print server which I have done many times before, only this time in adding the new driver, all other printers of the same manufacturer (Canon) stopped working, with the device on everyone's computer showing "Driver
update needed".
The new driver was for an iDV-ADV C5250. The printers which stopped working are all C5051's. The driver was added but at this point, no other action was taken, the driver was not used for a printer (hardware hasn't arrived yet) so the very simple step of
adding a new driver in preparation for a new printer causes a major issue.
To resolve it on the Windows Server 2008 R2 print server, I selected any one of the existing Canon printers and set the driver to the new driver I added. Of course this did NOT work however then setting the driver back to what it was originally did resolve
the issue... kind of. ALL users were then required to delete and re-add the printer(s) on their computers. You can see this was not a popular fault.
Although I resolved it, I really want to understand why this occurred. Can anyone help? I really need to make sure this doesn't happen again. I thought maybe printer isolation might help but you can't set a driver to isolated until after it's added can you?
Thanks.

Hi Norton_San,
Based on your description, I understand that you add a new driver for iDV-ADV C5250 in printer server. However,
this operation affected all other C5051 printers (stop working). If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
When an administrator updates a printer driver on a shared print server, the Point and Print feature automatically
updates printer drivers from the print server to a client computer. Some printers may share driver files across several printer models or across a family of printers. An update to one of these shared driver files will cause client computers to update the drivers
for any device that depends on the updated files.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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