Manual: ppmtomitsu

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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  image  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 transmission	 has
       started,	 the  job can't be stopped in a sane way without resetting the printer.	 The printer understands putting to‐
       gether images in the printer's memory; ppmtomitsu doesn't use this function because pamcat etc provide the same func‐
       tions 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 printers 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 ensure 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 ppmtomitsu will use properly.

OPTIONS
       In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably  -quiet,  see	  Common Options  ),
       ppmtomitsu recognizes the following command line options:

       -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  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

netpbm documentation					24 March 2009				   Ppmtomitsu User Manual(1)