Plist file for Printers

We are looking at changing all the printers within our company. Rather than removing the old printers and installing the new printers on each Mac, is there an easy way to roll out the changes on all machines?
I was considering setting up all the new printers on one machine then copying the plist file and sending it out through ARD but I haven't been able to sucessfully find which file(s) holds the printer settings.
Any suggestions are appreciated.

/Library/Printers/ holds the InstalledPrinters.plist file. However, that might not be sufficient. If you didn't remove any printer software and have installed all the requisite software on one machine for all the new printers, then that file and the other subfolders in that directory might suffice. However, I do know that printer companies also create separate folders inside /Applications (at least Hewlett Packard does, so you might be swimming uphill with your objective. Maybe you ought to consider employing a printer server—details are beyond my ken.

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