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 lookup table, that ppmtomitsu uses
if there are no more than 256 colors in the image. ppmtomitsu tries to
position your image at the center of the paper, and will rotate your im-
age for you if xsize is larger than ysize. If your image is larger than
the media allows, ppmtomitsu fails. (We decided that the media were too
expensive to have careless users produce misprints). Once data trans-
mission has started, the job can't be stopped in a sane way without re-
setting the printer. The printer understands putting together images in
the printer's memory; ppmtomitsu doesn't use this function because pam-
cat etc provide the same functions and let you view the result on-
screen, too. The S340-10 is the lowest common denominator printer; for
higher resolution printers there is the dpi300 option. The other print-
ers are also capable of higher values for enlarge, etc., but I don't
think that is valuable 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, including
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 ppm-
tomitsu will use properly.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably -quiet, see ]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ ), 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 specify
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 Par-
allel 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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