ppmtomitsu(1)ppmtomitsu(1)NAMEppmtomitsu - convert a portable pixmap to a Mitsubishi
S340-10 file
SYNOPSISppmtomitsu [-sharpness val] [-enlarge val] [-media string]
[-copy val] [-dpi300] [-tiny] [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap 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 supports
24bit 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 maxi-
mum of 256 colors in the pixmap. 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 message. (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 functionality and let you view
the result on-screen, too. The S340-10 is the lowest com-
mon denominator printer; for higher resolution printers
there's the dpi300 option. The other printers also support
higher values for enlarge eg, but I don't think that's
essential enough to warrant a change in the program.
-sharpness 1-4
'sharpness' designation. Default is to use the
current sharpness.
-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 differ-
ent 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.
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ppmtomitsu(1)ppmtomitsu(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-safing, 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 Specifi-
cations of Parallel Interface LSP-F0232F
SEE ALSOppmquant(1), pnmscale(1), ppm(5)BUGS
We didn't find any - yet. (Besides, they're called fea-
tures anyway :-) If you should find one, my email-adress
is below.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1992, 93 by S.Petra Zeidler, MPIfR Bonn,
Germany. (spz@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)
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