What to do with printers?

Question

Printers

Hello, I will describe my problem. There is a medical institution, in each office there is a system unit and a thin client. Printers shared over the network to thin printers are connected to the system units. There is a specialized medical software on which the medical staff works. The essence of the problem is as follows, if the software on the thin client is launched before the system has detected the printer (for example, if the system manager was launched after the software was opened on the thin client), then print honey from the program. the employee will not be able to until he restarts the software, i.e. at the time the program is turned on, the printer must be active, otherwise the software does not see it. In this regard, the question arises of how this problem can be solved, of course, ideally, it is necessary to install a print server in each office, but of course no one will give money for this. Maybe the server can raise some virtual printers,
PS
On Windows 7 systems, on Win Server 2008 R2 and 2016

Answer 1

If the printers are not network, then I can only sympathize. As a solution - write instructions in what order to turn on the computers.

Answer 2

A full-fledged option is to deploy a print service on the server, equip non-network printers with print servers (hp 175x are good, but it can also be based on raspberries, routers with alt-firmware).

Answer 3

The simplest and cheapest option is to call the system unit the proud name "our server", hang it on a UPS with control and do not turn it off.