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 together images
       in the printer's memory; ppmtomitsu doesn't use this function because pamcat  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 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 ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), 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