Printer Driver: Is it Better to Use Software Update? Or the Manufacture's?

Hi. Which is better: the driver from the manufacturer's or the one that software update installs? Thank you in advance.
Gbu

Many of the drivers available via Software Update have been provided by the printer vendor to Apple so that the SU facility is possible. Apple are no longer in the business of making printers (technically they never were) or printer drivers.
What has happened on some occasions is that the vendor appears to take much longer to make the same driver available on their own web site. Or they may take the approach as mentioned in the other post of supplying the drivers to Apple for inclusion in the OS and don't bother with providing the driver themselves.
So the answer is that you will often have a better chance of getting a driver that supports your version of OS X via SU rather than the vendors own web site.

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