PPMTOMITSU(1)

💅 ppmtomitsu — bestie's guide to yeeting PPM pics at a Mitsubishi printer ✨

okay so first things first: this is ppmtomitsu, and it lives in the Ppmtomitsu User Manual (section 1, General Commands Manual, iykyk). she's a Netpbm girlie, and she does exactly one job and she ATE: turning a PPM image into a file you can feed to a Mitsubishi S340-10 printer. no cap. 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

ppmtomitsu — convert a PPM image to a Mitsubishi S340-10 file 🖨️🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ppmtomitsu

[-sharpness val]

[-enlarge val]

[-media string]

[-copy val]

[-dpi300]

[-tiny]

[ppmfile]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so this program is part of Netpbm(1), obviously. 💅

ppmtomitsu reads a PPM image as input and converts it into a format suitable to be printed by a Mitsubishi S340-10 printer, or literally any other Mitsubishi color sublimation printer. she's flexible like that. 🫶

The Mitsubishi S340-10 Color Sublimation printer can print in 24 bit color. periodt. But here's the thing — images of the available sizes take SO long to transfer that there's a fast method, and it employs a lookup table. ppmtomitsu uses that lookup table if there are no more than 256 colors in the image. iconic behavior honestly. ⭐

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. she's got main character energy and she's looking out for you. 💁‍♀️

But bestie — if your image is larger than the media allows, ppmtomitsu fails. flat out. (We decided that the media were too expensive to have careless users produce misprints). 😭 so like, be careful, fr fr.

Once data transmission has started, the job can't be stopped in a sane way without resetting the printer. you've been warned, don't come for me. 💀

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. so like, why would she. 🙈

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. and honestly? valid. 🤷‍♀️

⚠️ For proper results, the input maxval must be 255. Use pamdepth to ensure that it is. do NOT skip this step bestie, I'm begging. 😭

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. glow-up complete. ✨

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🎀 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 — the "sharpness" designation. Default is to use the current sharpness. she's not gonna fight the printer about it. 💅
• -enlarge 1-3 — Enlarge by a factor; Default is 1 (no enlarge). sometimes you just want more. 🌸
• -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. she will simply sit there. staring. until you fix it. 💀

• -copy 1-9 — The number of copies to produce. Default is 1. one is enough, usually. 🍓
• -dpi300 — Double the number of allowed pixels for a S3600-30 Printer in S340-10 compatibility mode. (The S3600-30 has 300 dpi). look at her, being all flexible. 👑
• -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. lowkey a lifesaver if your RAM is struggling bestie. 😭

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🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

Mitsubishi Sublimation Full Color Printer S340-10 Specifications of Parallel Interface LSP-F0232F

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pnmquant(1), pamscale(1), ppm(1)

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Copyright (C) 1992, 93 by S.Petra Zeidler, MPIfR Bonn, Germany. (spz@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de)

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🌸 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

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netpbm documentation · 24 March 2009 · ok bye bestie, go print something gorgeous, you've got this 💅✨🫶🎀