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February 18th, 2004 11:00

M5200 Printer Driver Question

I just installed the Dell-provided drivers for the M5200n printer (WinXP Pro SP1). In my Printers window, I am provided (2) different Printers; I get

Dell M5200

and

Dell M5200 PS3

How do these differ, and when/why should one be used over the other?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

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Posted February 18th, 2004 19:00
Mike,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.

I cannot find an explanation for the two entries. All of the documentation that I have points to the installation of a Dell M5200 PS3 driver.
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Posted February 20th, 2004 02:00
If you install the provided software, you will find the two printer entries that I describe.

I think a better answer is in order.
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Posted March 5th, 2004 10:00
Hi

One of them is the PostScript driver (PS3) and the other one is the PCL driver.

The PS3 is mainly used to print graphics (I aslo suggest it for pdf's - it's faster) while the PCL is most of the times used for text mainly through Office applications

I hope this helps

George