gipddecode - Man Page

gipddecode [options] <gipd-file

gipddecode decodes a Granite Image Printer Driver (GIPD) stream into human readable form. Granite Systems was acquired by Monotype Imaging.

A GIPD stream is the printer language used by the Lexmark X500 and the Dell 1125 MFP printers.

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 GIPD stream file.

$ gipddecode -h x500-mono.prn 
     0: OFST    0       len=128
    80: OFST    1       len=128
   100: OFST    2       len=128
   180: OFST    3       len=128
   200: OFST    4       len=128
        [SNIP]
 27d80: OFST    1275    len=128
 27e00: \033%-12345X@PJL SET DISPINFOWHILEPRINT=OFF
 27e2a: @PJL SET DISPATPAPERCHANG=OFF
 27e49: @PJL SET JAMRECOVERY=ON
 27e62: @PJL SET OUTPUTBLANKPAPER=OFF
 27e81: @PJL SET PRINTSLOWLY=OFF
 27e9b: @PJL SET REVERSEPRINT=OFF
 27eb6: \033%-12345X
 27ebf: GDIJ    len=108
        unk0=0, unk1=0, unk2=0, unk3=0, unk4=0
        unk5=16777221(0x1000005), unk6=0, unk7=0, unk8=0, paper=0
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 
 27f37: GDIP    len=52
        nplane = 1, w254 = 4896, h254 = 6110
        132018de, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1000000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 
 27f77: GDIB     0      len=60 (0x3c)
 27fcb: GDIB     1      len=252 (0xfc)
 280df: GDIB     2      len=124 (0x7c)
 28173: GDIB     3      len=956 (0x3bc)
 28547: GDIB     4      len=1692 (0x69c)
 28bfb: GDIB     5      len=572 (0x23c)
 28e4f: GDIB     6      len=17084 (0x42bc)
 2d123: GDIB     7      len=18108 (0x46bc)
 317f7: GDIB     8      len=8508 (0x213c)
 3394b: GDIB     9      len=1756 (0x6dc)
 3403f: GDIB    10      len=1596 (0x63c)
 34693: GDIB    11      len=892 (0x37c)
 34a27: GDIB    12      len=2332 (0x91c)
 3535b: GDIB    13      len=8380 (0x20bc)
 3742f: GDIB    14      len=3452 (0xd7c)
 381c3: GDIB    15      len=60 (0x3c)
 38217: GDIB    16      len=1468 (0x5bc)
 387eb: GDIB    17      len=2076 (0x81c)
 3901f: GDIB    18      len=284 (0x11c)
 39153: GDIB    19      len=1660 (0x67c)
 397e7: GDIB    20      len=2908 (0xb5c)
 3a35b: GDIB    21      len=156 (0x9c)
 3a40f: GDIB    22      len=188 (0xbc)
 3a4e3: GDIB    23      len=220 (0xdc)
 3a5d7: GDIB    24      len=60 (0x3c)
 3a62b: PIDG
 3a637: JIDG
Total Size = 75843 (0x12843)

/usr/bin/gipddecode

Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>