Epson Printer Bitmaps

File Format
Name	Epson Printer Bitmaps
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Epson Printer Bitmaps

Epson Printer Bitmaps are graphics in the form that can be sent to an Epson printer as part of the ESC/P printer command language. They are stored either uncompressed or with run-length encoding (RLE) compression. Some information on the formatting can be found on page C-172 of the ESC/P manual linked below.

Documentation

• ESC/P reference manual

Software

• Convert BMP to Epson Bitmap (Program for Windows; doesn't seem to work in Windows 7; probably needs earlier version)
• Netpbm: pbmtoepson, pbmtoescp2, escp2topbm

Other links

• Writing a bitmap to Epson TM88IV through ESC/P commands (Write To NVRam)