if you print from a laptop at home at at office, and it happens you have the same printer model here and there, you might to want to distinguish between them by name.

# become root
sudo bash
# backup config
cp /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf.backup

vim /etc/cups/printers.conf

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v2.2.1
# Written by cupsd
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING
<Printer NEW_NAME_OF_PRINTER>

systemctl restart cups

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