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## Format support
In order to work with more printers, SeaPrint can use `poppler-utils` (pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftocairo) to convert PDFs.
For PDFs or plaintext, your printer needs to support one of the following formats:
* PDF
* Postscript (needs poppler-utils)
* PWG-raster (needs poppler-utils)
* URF-raster (needs poppler-utils)
* Postscript
* PWG-raster
* URF-raster
For Postscript, your printer needs to support Postscript natively.
For Postscript, your printer needs to support Postscript natively. (SeaPrint just sends it as-is)
For printing "Office" files, like .doc(x) and odt, you need to install
`calligraconverter` (from the `calligra` package in Sailfish OS 4.2 onwards).
Then the printer support follows that of PDF (but poppler-utils is mandatory).
Then the printer support follows that of PDF.
For images, your printer needs to support one of the following formats:
* PNG
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* PWG-raster
* URF-raster
* PDF
* Postscript (needs poppler-utils)
* Postscript
For printing JPEG images, transferring the unaltered image has priority and the printer does the scaling.
Other image formats are lossless and SeaPrint does scale-and-rotate to fit, so JPEG has lowest prio there.
Printers with any of these IPP certifications/sub-standards should likely be supported:
Printers with any of these IPP certifications and derivative standards should likely be supported:
* IPP Everywhere
* AirPrint