Hello Rick,
The following video may be helpful to you, with detailed introduction and practical steps to migrate Printers from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2, which is similar to migration from 2012 R2 to 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWO5UnIiRzE
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