Ppmtomitsu User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Ppmtomitsu User Manual(1)
NAME
ppmtomitsu - convert a PPM image to a Mitsubishi S340-10 file
SYNOPSIS
ppmtomitsu
[-sharpness val]
[-enlarge val]
[-media string]
[-copy val]
[-dpi300]
[-tiny]
[ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmtomitsu reads a PPM image as input and converts it into a format
suitable to be printed by a Mitsubishi S340-10 printer, or any other
Mitsubishi color sublimation printer.
The Mitsubishi S340-10 Color Sublimation printer can print in 24 bit
color. Images of the available sizes take so long to transfer that
there is a fast method, employing a lookuptable, that ppmtomitsu will
use if there is a maximum of 256 colors in the image. ppmtomitsu will
try to position your image to the center of the paper, and will rotate
your image for you if xsize is larger than ysize. If your image is
larger than the media allows, ppmtomitsu will quit with an error mes-
sage. (We decided that the media were too expensive to have careless
users produce misprints.) Once data transmission has started, the job
can't be stopped in a sane way without resetting the printer. The
printer understands putting together images in the printers memory;
ppmtomitsu doesn't utilize this as pnmcat etc provide the same func-
tionality and let you view the result on-screen, too. The S340-10 is
the lowest common denominator printer; for higher resolution printers
there's the dpi300 option. The other printers are also capable of
higher values for enlarge eg, but I don't think that's essential enough
to warrant a change in the program.
For proper results, the input maxval must be 255. Use pamdepth to en-
sure that it is.
Before Netpbm 10.40 (September 2007), all Netpbm PPM programs, includ-
ing ppmtomitsu, see a PBM image as having maxval 1, so ppmtomitsu does
not function properly with PBM input. You can use ppmtoppm together
with pamdepth to turn your PBM input into maxval 255 PPM input that
ppmtomitsu will use properly.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), ppmtomitsu recognizes the
following command line options:
-sharpness 1-4
"sharpness" designation. Default is to use the current sharp-
ness.
-enlarge 1-3
Enlarge by a factor; Default is 1 (no enlarge)
-media {A|A4|AS|A4S}
Designate the media you're using. Default is 1184 x 1350, which
will fit on any media. A is 1216 x 1350, A4 is 1184 x 1452, AS
is 1216 x 1650 and A4S is 1184 x 1754. A warning: If you spec-
ify a different media than the printer currently has, the
printer will wait until you put in the correct media or switch
it off.
-copy 1-9
The number of copies to produce. Default is 1.
-dpi300
Double the number of allowed pixels for a S3600-30 Printer in
S340-10 compatibility mode. (The S3600-30 has 300 dpi).
-tiny Memory-saving, but always slow. The printer will get the data
line-by-line in 24bit. It's probably a good idea to use this if
your machine starts paging a lot without this option.
REFERENCES
Mitsubishi Sublimation Full Color Printer S340-10 Specifications of
Parallel Interface LSP-F0232F
SEE ALSO
pnmquant(1), pamscale(1), ppm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1992, 93 by S.Petra Zeidler, MPIfR Bonn, Germany.
(spz@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtomitsu.html
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