Canon Printer Drivers

I've noticed for some time now, that Canon offer a choice of 2 drivers for my IP4500 printer.
One is a CUPS driver, the other is non-CUPS.
I currently use the non-CUPS driver, but my question is: is one driver better than the other, which one should I be using?
From my brief play around with Snow Leopard, I think it supplies the CUPS driver.
Answers anyone...

The two drivers are based around two different programming techniques, the so called CUPS driver being written using Cocoa, which is the preferred method for future proofing the driver, and the non-CUPS driver based on Carbon. And yes, the drivers included with 10.6 are the CUPS versions.
From a user perspective, there is minimal difference between the two. They both offer the same features for the printer and have similar colour output.
Prior to the CUPS driver being updated so that 10.6 was supported, I would not have recommended using the CUPS driver on 10.5, based on my own testing with the previous incarnations of the driver and from assisting Canon owners with issues on this forum.
However, having used the latest versions of the CUPS driver with 10.6 and 10.5, I believe you could look at using this new version, purely from a familiarity perspective. But, if the version you have installed now is working fine, then leave it alone. No point fixing something that is not broken....
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