What is the difference between printer drivers?

[Stern]

Hi, my friend just gave me his samsung ml2251n network printer and Samsung has several drivers for it to download:

Printer Driver
Post Script Driver
PCL Driver

What is the difference between these? And which one should I get?

Here is the link.

Thanks,

Stern

 

[corkyg]

Printer driver is the generic driver for that printer. PCL driver enables it to work with Hewlett-Packard printers which use that page descriptor (laser!), and the PostScript driver is for handling Adobe PostScript fonts.