Pbmtoepson User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pbmtoepson User Manual(1)
NAME
pbmtoepson - convert a PBM image into Epson printer graphics
SYNOPSIS
pbmtoepson
[-dpi=n] [-protocol={escp9|escp}] [-adjacent] [-nonadjacent]
[pbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pbmtoepson reads a PBM image as input and produces a stream of Epson
printer graphics as output.
The input is from the file identified by the pbmfile argument or, if you
don't specify pbmfile, from Standard Input. Output is to Standard Out-
put.
The output is for traditional (ca 1991) Epson 9-wire dot matrix (some-
times called ESC/P 9-wire) printers or newer ESC/P printers. For a more
modern Epson ESC/P2 type printer, try pbmtoescp2.
Before Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004), pbmtoepson could not produce ESC/P
streams -- only ESC/P 9-wire.
The Epson printer protocols are described in Epson's protocol specifica-
tion.
Note that there is no epsontopbm tool - this transformation is one way.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), pbmtoepson recognizes the
following command line options:
-protocol={escp9|escp}
This determines which Epson printer protocol the output uses.
escp9 is the older ESC/P 9-pin protocol. escp is the newer ESC/P
protocol. For the even newer ESC/P2 protocol, you have to use
pbmtoescp2 instead.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004).
-dpi=n This specifies the horizontal print density in dots per inch.
The protocol allows only certain values: 60, 72, 80, 90, 120,
144, and 240. Actually, the ESC/P protocol allows a few others,
but pbmtoepson doesn't know how to generate the command streams
that use them.
If you don't specify this, pbmtoepson chooses a horizontal print
density for you consistent with your other options.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004).
-adjacent
-nonadjacent
These options determine whether the output uses "adjacent dot
printing" or not, whatever that is.
If you don't specify this, pbmtoepson selects adjacent dot print-
ing unless that is incompatible with your other options.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004).
SEE ALSO
pbmtoescp2(1), pbm(1),
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by John Tiller (tiller@galois.msfc.nasa.gov) and Jef
Poskanzer.
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/pbmtoepson.html
netpbm documentation 08 August 2003 Pbmtoepson User Manual(1)
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