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Is there a way to make a Windows Server consume it's own shared printers?

I have Windows Server 2019 with some network printers installed using Standard TCP/IP-ports. That server shares all of those printers and pushes them using GPO/GPP to some clients. The printers are shared by the server to have only one place to configure which tray to use for which printer etc. There's additionally an app which needs to get those printers configured using a dialog showing available printers ONLY, there's no chance to simply write arbitrary printer names or alike. That dialog only shows what's known currently to the client Windows. The problem is that this special configuration

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