Help with allowing users to install local printers

kalebksp

So I haven't worked with Windows security/GP in a while and I'm having trouble figuring out if what I want to do is possible.

Goals:
Keep regular users from installing software while allowing them to install new local printers (ideally they could install any hardware they need).

Currently all users have regular user accounts on their laptops, and therefor cannot install software or new local printers. My users are mobile and use portable printers in their cars, if the portable printer is installed by an admin the user can use it fine. However when users switch cars (which they do regularly) the new printer (which is the exact same model) cannot be installed without an admin user logging in and installing it.

From searching the internet it appears that it is not possible to allow a regular user to install a new local printers and there is no easy way to restrict power users from installing software (another solution I toyed around with). I'm not worried about advanced users using the ability to install drivers to escalate privileges or anything of that nature, I just want to keep the average user from installing iTunes.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hyper-Me

How many cars/users?

If its a relatively small amount, I dont see a huge issue in simply installing all printers to all users via a GPO.