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 ), 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)