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I'm closing the question because I found the reason and, uhm, fix to my problem.
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I'm closing the question because I found the reason and, uhm, fix to my problem.

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Can someone explain to me why I need to have SERVERNAME\Administrators added to the Security tab of a shared printer on a domain-joined Server 2012 R2 in order to successfully install it on a client computer (either domain-joined or workgrouped)?<br />
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Shouldn't my own user (assigned full permissions, and a member of the local Administrators group on both the server and client) in that tab be sufficient in order to install and use the printer? I get an Access Denied error when &quot;completing installation&quot; on the client if I remove the SERVERNAME\Administrators group from the printer.
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Can someone explain to me why I need to have SERVERNAME\Administrators added to the Security tab of a shared printer on a domain-joined Server 2012 R2 in order to successfully install it on a client computer (either domain-joined or workgrouped)?

Shouldn't my own user (assigned full permissions, and a member of the local Administrators group on both the server and client) in that tab be sufficient in order to install and use the printer? I get an Access Denied error when "completing installation" on the client if I remove the SERVERNAME\Administrators group from the printer.

Windows Server 2012 R2 shared printer permissions

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.