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Question about recomposing and printers

We are testing a View 4.5 deployment. I have been recomposing desktops once a month or so to refresh them after updating the base VM with Windows Updates, etc. Users install their own network printers that they use in their desktops - we do not automatically install printers based on location or IP address or anything. I just found out/realized today that when I do that, the printer drivers for user-installed printers disappear, thus making the printer not work. The printers in this case are Canon ir{xxx} copier/printers. The user can go into the printers folder and update the driver to re-download it, but that will not work for a real deployment. I'm wondering what others are doing for this, or what I can do so that the drivers don't get wiped off with a recompose. I was thinking that I would have to put the drivers for all the different printers we would possibly use in the base desktop VM, but I am not sure if that is the answer. If it is the way to go, I can do it, I just want to check before taking the time to load all the different drivers.

Thank you!

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