esc-m

esc-m

esc-m is a small debugging filter shipped with the min12xxw printer driver. It reads a driver data stream on standard input and prints a human-readable description of the ESC-M (compressed page) commands it contains to standard output.The tool takes no arguments and no options: it is only meant to help developers and users understand what the min12xxw driver emits for a KonicaMinolta PagePro 1200W-class printer, for example when diagnosing a printing problem or verifying the compressed raster output.

esc-m is a diagnostic aid, not a print command; it does not talk to a printer. It only understands the data format produced by the min12xxw driver, so feeding it arbitrary files produces meaningless output. It is packaged together with min12xxw (Debian's printer-driver-min12xxw) rather than as a standalone tool.

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