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![SeaPrint icon](icons/172x172/harbour-seaprint.png)
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Print PDFs and images over IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). Most, but not all, IPP-capable printers are supported. For printing PDFs, SeaPrint relies on the printer either supporting PDF natively, or the optional dependency `poppler-utils` to convert to Postscript, PWG-raster or URF-raster. Images can be printed on printers accepting JPEG, PNG and GIF as well as PWG-raster or URF-raster.
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Print PDFs and images over IPP (Internet Printing Protocol).
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Most, but not all, IPP-capable printers are supported.
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A minority of printers support only PCL and/or their own proprietary formats, these are not supported.
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## Format support
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In order to work with more printers, SeaPrint can use `poppler-utils` (pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftocairo) to convert PDFs.
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For PDFs, your printer needs to support one of the following formats:
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* PDF
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* Postscript (needs poppler-utils)
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* PWG-raster (needs poppler-utils)
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* URF-raster (needs poppler-utils)
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For Postscript, your printer needs to support Postscript natively.
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For printing "Office" files, like .doc(x) and odt, you need to install
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`calligraconverter` (from the `calligra` package in Sailfish OS 4.2 onwards).
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Then the printer support follows that of PDF.
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For images, your printer needs to support one of the following formats:
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* PNG
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* JPEG
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* PWG-raster
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* URF-raster
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* PDF
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* Postscript (needs poppler-utils)
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For printing JPEG images, transferring the unaltered image has priority and the printer does the scaling.
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Other image formats are lossless and SeaPrint does scale-and-rotate to fit, so JPEG has lowest prio there.
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Printers with any of these IPP certifications/sub-standards should likely be supported:
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* IPP Everywhere
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* AirPrint
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* Mopria
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* WiFi Direct
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(obviously SeaPrint is unaffiliated and uncertified)
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