Need help extracting printer driver name from ppd files

[Jeep Guy]

Without going into too much detail, I have a few groups of HA print servers in dev, QA, Prod environments and I need to keep the configs in sync.  I am writing a perl script that will extract most of the printer info from the printers.conf file and dump it to a semi-colon delimited file.  I intend to use this file later to rebuild the basic printer configs on other systems using the lpadmin command.

The problem that I am having is that I do not know how to get the print driver to be used with the lpadmin command.  I want to add the printers as follows:

lpadmin -L <location> -D <description> -p <Printer Name> -v <device URI> -m <printer driver> -E

I can get everything I need from the printers.conf file except for the <printer driver>.  It looks like the /etc/cups/ppd/<Printer Name>.ppd conf file should hold what I am looking for but I don't know if that is true or if so which variable I should be looking for in that file.

Would someone knowledgeable please chime in and let me know where to get the printer driver to plug into the lpadmin command?

Thanks.