---
name: "gif2epsn"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "giflib-tools"
version: "4.1.6-11+deb8u1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gif2epsn"
---

# gif2epsn(1)

A program to dump images saved as GIF files on Epson type printers.

## NAME

gif2epsn -  A program to dump images saved as GIF files on Epson type printers.

## USAGE

**gif2epsn \[-q\] \[-d dither\] \[-t bw\] \[-m map\] \[-i\] \[-n\] \[-p printer\] \[-h\] gif-file**

If no gif-file is given, Gif2Epsn will try to read a GIF file from stdin.

## MEMORY REQUIRED

Screen.

## OPTIONS

- \[-q\]

   Quiet mode.  Default off on MSDOS, on under UNIX. Controls printout of running scan lines. Use -q- to invert.

- \[-d dither\]

   Sets size of dithering matrix, where DitherSize can be 2,3 or 4 only (for 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 dithering matrices).  Default is 2. Note image will be displayed in this mode only if the mapping option (see -m) selected this mode.

- \[-t bw\]

   Sets threshold level for B&W mapping in percent. This threshold level is used in the different mappings as selected via -m. Default is 19%.

- \[-m map\]

   Select method to map colors to B&W.  Mapping can be:

- 0

  Every none background color is considered foreground (white color but is drawn as black by printer, unless -i is specified).

- 1

  If 0.3 \* RED  0.59 \* GREEN  0.11 \* YELLOW \> BW the pixel is considered white color.

- 2

  Colors are mapped as in 1, and use dithering of size as defined using -d option.  BWthreshold is used here as scaler.

  The default is option 0.

- \[-i\]

   Invert the image, i.e.  black -\> white, white -\> black.

- \[-n\]

   Nicer image.  Uses double-density feature of Epson printer.  This takes more time (and kills your ink cartridge faster...) but results are usually better.

- \[-p printer\]

   Under Unix, output goes to stdout by default; under DOS, the default is LPT1:.  With this switch you can specify the output target.

- \[-h\]

   print one line of command line help, similar to Usage above.

## NOTES

The output has an aspect ratio of 1, so a square image will be square in hardcopy as well.

The widest image can be printed is 640 pixels, on 8 inch paper.  You probably will need to flip wider images, if height is less than that: \`\<a href="gifflip.html"\>gifflip -r x29.gif \| gif2epsn'.  Wider images will be clipped.

## AUTHOR

Gershon Elber

Man page created by T.Gridel \<tgridel@free.fr\>, originally written by Eric S. Raymond \<esr@thyrsus.com\>