---
name: "lavadecode"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "printer-driver-foo2zjs-common"
version: "20200505dfsg0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lavadecode"
---

# lavadecode(1)

lavadecode - Decode a LAVAFLOW stream into human readable form. **lavadecode** \[*options*\] \<*lavaflow-file* **lavadecode** decodes a LAVAFLOW stream into human readable form.

A LAVAFLOW stream is the printer language used by some Konica Minolta printers, such as the KM magicolor 2530 DL.

These are the options that can appear on the command line.

- **-d** *basename*

  Basename of .pbm file for saving decompressed planes.

- **-h**

  Print hex file offsets.

- **-o**

  Print file offsets.

- **-D** *level*

  Set Debug level \[0\].

  Decode an LAVAFLOW stream file created by foo2lava.

  ```
  $ lavadecode -h < testpage.prn
       0: \033%-12345X@PJL JOB NAME="stdin"
      1f: \033%-12345X@PJL JOB USERNAME=""
      3d: \033%-12345X@PJL JOB TIMESTAMP="07/20/2007"
      66: \033%-12345X@PJL JOB OSINFO="Linux/2.6.20-1.2316.fc5"
      99: \033%-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=LAVAFLOW
      bf: \033E                  RESET
      c1: \033&l0S               DUPLEX: [off]
      c6: \033&l0G
      cb: \033&u1200D            X RESOLUTION: [1200]
      d3: \033&l1X               COPIES: [1]
      d8: \033&x1X               TRANSMIT ONCE COPIES: [1]
      dd: \033&l0O               ORIENTATION: [port]
      e2: \033*r1U               NBIE: [1]
      e7: \033*g8W               BW/COLOR: [8]
                                  fmt=2 np=1
                                  BLACK:  X=1200, Y=600, unk=0, #=4(2)
      f4: \033*b1234M            COMPRESSION: [1234] (JBIG)
      fc: \033&l2A               PAGE SIZE: [letter]
     101: \033&l255H             PAPER SOURCE: [auto]
     108: \033&l0M               MEDIA TYPE: [plain]
     10d: \033&l0E               TOP MARGIN: [0]
     112: \033*r9792S            X RASTER: [9792,0x2640]
     11a: \033*r6400T            Y RASTER: [6400,0x1900]
     122: \033&l0U
     127: \033&l0Z
     12c: \033*p200X             X OFFSET: [200]
     133: \033*p200Y             Y OFFSET: [200]
     13a: \033*r1A               [Page 1]
     13f: \033*b20V              [black]
                                  DL = 0, D = 0, P = 1, - = 0, XY = 9792 x 6400
                                  L0 = 128, MX = 0, MY = 0
                                  Order   = 3  ILEAVE SMID
                                  Options = 92  LRLTWO TPDON TPBON DPON
                                  50 stripes, 0 layers, 1 planes
     159: \033*b65536V           JBIG data (first) [65536,0x10000]
                           ff 02 c2 79 54 3e be e1 a0 de 08 9a b1 d2 c2 59
                          ... ae 88 ef a7 c7 96 d3 96 a6 d7 2c 06 38 75 22 44
   10162: \033*b26432W           JBIG data (end) [26432,0x6740]
                           0e 89 66 ce 01 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41
                          ... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
   168ab: \033*x3887138K         BLACK DOTS: [3887138]
   168b6: \033*x58781662W        BLACK WHITEDOTS: [58781662]
   168c2: \033*rC                END PAGE
   168c6: \033&l0H               PAPER SOURCE: [eject]
   168cb: \033E                  RESET
   168cd: \033%-12345X
  ```

  **/usr/bin/lavadecode** [**foo2lava-wrapper**(1)](/foo2lava-wrapper/1.md), [**foo2lava**(1)](/foo2lava/1.md) Rick Richardson \<rick.richardson@comcast.net\>\
   http://foo2lava.rkkda.com/