Question
Which PPD file?
Hopefully someone here who has more knowledge of postscript than I have (which is nil) can help me with this...
I have a Brother HL-5250DN printer which was supplied with a Brother PPD file that starts:
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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%================================================
*% Copyright(C) 2006 Brother Industries, Ltd.
*% "Brother HL5250DN for CUPS"
*%================================================
*%==== General Information Keywords ========================
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.00"
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*LanguageVersion: English
*Manufacturer: "Brother"
*PCFileName: "HL5250.PPD"
*Product: "(Brother HL5250DN series)"
*cupsVersion: 1.1
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsModelNumber: 72
*cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 brlpdwrapperHL5250DN"
*PSVersion: "(3010.106) 3"
*ModelName: "HL5250DN"
*NickName: "Brother HL5250DN for CUPS"
*ShortNickName: "Brother HL5250DN for CUPS"--
I wanted to know if that file would be preferable to using the open source PPD file from the CUPS project that begins:
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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%================================================
*% Copyright(C) 2005 Brother Industries, Ltd.
*% "Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3"
*%================================================
*%==== General Information Keywords ========================
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.03"
*LanguageEncoding: ISOLatin1
*LanguageVersion: English
*Manufacturer: "Brother"
*PCFileName: "BR5250_2.PPD"
*Product: "(Brother HL-5250DN series)"
*PSVersion: "(3010.106) 5"
*ShortNickName: "Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3"
*ModelName: "Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3"
*NickName: "Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3"--
I'm sure either will work, but wondered what the differences would be, and also what could be specifically "for CUPS" about a PPD file, as suggested in the first header above.
Thanks for any help offered.
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