Printing best practices

I've been asking a bunch of questions recently on TS printing and realize that I should just start from scratch. Since I'm not sure what best practices are for this environment, I would like to get everyone's opinion.
This environment:
20 Server 2008 R2 TS' and approximately 200 fat clients (mixed XP and 7). Currently, all network printers are installed on each TS individually (not shared). We also have about 10 USB printers that redirect. Our network printers are set up on 5 different local
servers since we have multiple locations. We print both from local desktops and terminal servers.
What we need is for all network printers to be on each server like they are currently but I'd like to eliminate the need to manage each one on each and every server whenever there is a change. Our current environment was set up by previous IT personnel and
I'm not sure if it's optimal
I understand there are multiple ways to deploy printers but I don't know what is best for our environment. I've tried Print Management but I need to be able to set preferences. I've tried GPP in Computer Configuration but it doesn't seem to work (possibly because
of the current set up). I would like to know how others would manage the printers in this environment, even if I need to delete everything and start over. I am also inexperienced with servers and group policy so I will ask follow up questions to most responses.
Sorry in advance!
Edit:To be more clear about my scope of knowledge- I know where the Active Directory and Group Policy Management reside. I have modified existing group policies
but not made new ones. Since all of our changes always apply to all users/terminal servers/roaming profiles, I've never needed to create OU's or use any kind of item-level targeting so I am not familiar with those.
Also, I would greatly appreciate not being redirected to another site/forum for answers. I've read hundreds
and am getting mixed responses since I'm not sure what is appropriate for this particular environment. That and because I need layman's terms :) Thank you!

Hey Lynnette
I read through some of the other questions you were asking.
Deployed Printers from Print Management is only for adding printer connections, it's not for adding local printers and Deployed Printers does not support setting a default printer.
Group Policy Preferences supports adding local printers and connections. It can be used to set the default but not sure if that's for connections or local printers.
If the end result is to have the same configuration of local printers on multiple machines, I suggest using \windows\system32\spool\tools\PrintBRM.exe to backup the local printers from your Primary machine, then restore to all the other targets.
You can create a scheduled task to perform the backup and restores.
If you are looking to add printer connections in the "Computer" context (all users logging on will get the connection to the shared printer), you can achieve this using the local machine policy or using a domain policy that only applies to a specific
set of computers. But once again no default is set but it's fairly easy to set the default with printui.exe or prnmngr.vbs both included with the operating system.
Alan Morris Windows Printing Team

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