Which PPD file?

[willie76]

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"

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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"

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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.

[Mr__Horton]

The PPD file is read by your application and it's

up to the application to use/do whatever it is capable of in

forming PostScript documents that take advantage of the

specific printer features.

The newest PPD file probably has CUPS statements included for features or default settings of the CUPS application, and may or may not directly relate to printer capabilities that the older PPD didn't address.

Other possibilities exist as well...