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SYNOPSISpbmtoescp2
[-compress=compressionmode] [-resolution=dpi] [pbmfile]
All options can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. You
may use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option. You may use
either white space or equals signs between an option name and its
value.
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pbmtoescp2 reads a PBM image as input. It produces an ESC/P2 raster
graphic printer control stream as output.
This program creates an output that is printable on Epson printers
that understand the ESC/P2 printer control language
⟨http://www.epson.co.uk/support/manuals/pdf/ESCP/Part_1.pdf⟩ (e.g. the
Stylus models). For older Epson 9-pin dot matrix printers, which use
the ESC/P protocol, see pbmtoepson.
OPTIONS
Input is read from file pbmfile if specified, otherwise from stdin.
Output is written to stdout.
-compress=compressionmode
This determines the compression mode that pbmtoescp2 uses in its
output. Valid values for compressionmode are 0 and 1. -com‐
press=0 results in a printer control stream with uncompressed
raster graphic data. -compress=1 results in a printer control
stream with RLE compressed raster graphic data (RLE means Run
Length Encoding). The default is -compress=1.
-resolution=dpi
This determines the horizontal and the vertical print resolution
set in the printer control stream. Another way of looking at it
is a declaration of what the resolution of the input image is
(PBM images don't have inherent resolution). Valid values for
dpi are 180 and 360. See hints ⟨#hints⟩ for more information
on this.
The default is -resolution=360.
HINTS
RLE compresses very well bitmaps of line drawings, preferably horizon‐
tal oriented contents like texts, sheets of music, etc. However, bit‐
maps derived from photographs are not ideal for RLE. In extreme cases,
when no byte repetitions occur in the input, the result will be even
slightly bigger than the input. To avoid this, use compression mode 0
to switch off RLE.
Each pixel in the input PBM image becomes one dot in the printed out‐
put. Therefore, you must make sure the width and height of the input
are appropriate for the print resolution you choose and the print area
you want. E.g. if you print at 180 dpi and want the image to print as
8 inches by 10, you must supply a PBM that is 1440 pixels wide by 1800
pixels high. You can adjust the size of the input with pamscale, pam‐
stretch, pbmreduce, or pamenlarge.
SEE ALSOescp2topbm(1), pbmtoepson(1), pamscale(1), pamstretch(1), pbmreduce(1),
pamenlarge(1), pbm(1)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2003 by Ulrich Walcher (u.walcher@gmx.de).
HISTORYpbmtoescp2 was added to Netpbm in Release 10.18 (August 2003); it was
created around the same time.
netpbm documentation 4 April 2005 Pbmtoescp2 User Manual(0)
