Non admins trying to reinstall printer drivers

We are having an issue that started last night (after updates/maybe coincidental) That our users(Non-admins) are having to reinstall the printer driver for the policy pushed printers. And unfortunately its prompting them for Admin creds. All the
printer deploys work just fine, and if a new user logs in the printer gets deployed fine. Its only when trying to refresh the driver. Only 1 driver that we are having issues with and it is the universal HP driver the other drivers are not trying to be reinstalled.
Ideas?

Dear friend,
Please enable the : "Allow non-administrator to install drivers for these device setup classes" policy
Thanks
Alper YAZGAN *

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