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
       lookuptable, that ppmtomitsu will use if there is a maximum of 256 colors  in  the  image.
       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 common denominator printer; for higher resolution printers
       there's  the  dpi300  option.  The  other  printers  are also capable of higher values for
       enlarge eg, but I don't think that's essential 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