---
name: "ppmtomitsu"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "netpbm"
version: "10.86.51-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ppmtomitsu"
---

# ppmtomitsu(1)

convert a PPM image to a Mitsubishi S340-10 file

## NAME

ppmtomitsu - convert a PPM image to a Mitsubishi S340-10 file

## SYNOPSIS

**ppmtomitsu**

\[-sharpness *val*\]

\[**-enlarge** *val*\]

\[**-media** *string*\]

\[**-copy** *val*\]

\[**-dpi300**\]

\[**-tiny**\]

\[*ppmfile*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This program is part of **Netpbm**(1) .

**ppmtomitsu** reads a PPM image 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 can print in 24 bit color. Images of the available sizes take so long to transfer that there is a fast method, employing a lookup table, that **ppmtomitsu** uses if there are no more than 256 colors in the image.  **ppmtomitsu** tries to position your image at the center of the paper, and will rotate your image for you if xs*ize* is larger than y*size*.  If your image is larger than the media allows, **ppmtomitsu** fails. (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 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.  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.

For proper results, the input maxval must be 255.  Use **pamdepth** to ensure that it is.

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.

## OPTIONS

In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably **-quiet**, see \
  Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), **ppmtomitsu** recognizes the following command line options:

- **-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-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.

## REFERENCES

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

## SEE ALSO

[**pnmquant**(1)](/pnmquant/1.md) ,  [**pamscale**(1)](/pamscale/1.md) ,  **ppm**(1)

## AUTHOR

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

## DOCUMENT SOURCE

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

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  **http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtomitsu.html**