PPMTOMITSU

NAME

      ppmtomitsu - convert a portable pixmap to a Mitsubishi S340-10 file

SYNOPSIS

      ppmtomitsu [-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 maximum 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 common 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
           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-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 Specifications of
      Parallel Interface LSP-F0232F

SEE ALSO

      ppmquant(1), pnmscale(1), ppm(5)

BUGS

      We didn't find any - yet. (Besides, they're called features 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)