Lightroom (Lr) has a feature that allows you to export and import printer templates. However, if you’re going to move a lot of them, it’s best to find the folder where they’re stored (Edit | Preferences | Presets | Show Lightroom Presets Folder) and copy the files to the equivalent location in the new computer.
However, if the printers aren’t named exactly the same in the two computers, you might as well recreate the templates manually — the profiles on the new computer will point at the default printer, and you’ll lose paper size settings and printer properties like paper type, ICC correction on/off, and the like.
If you have a lot of templates to import that point to a printer of the same type with a different name, it might be worth a try to temporarily make that printer the default printer on the new computer. I don’t know if that will work, because by the time I figured all this out, with some help from John Beardsworth, I’d already fixed everything up by hand.
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