The difference between ecconv and ecprint

Want to send print ready data to printer. What command line program do I use?

In EasyCopy (Unix) we do have two "translators": ecconv and ecprint.

* ecconv will convert many file formats to other raster file formats like JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP etc.

* ecprint will convert many file formats to printer specific data formats like PCL, HP-RTL, PostScript and likes including more printer/manufacturer specific ones like Canon, Epson, Seiko, Shinko HP-PCL3GUI formats.

Besides the printer specific formats from "ecprint", I'm only aware of some printers that will be able to understand the Tiff format (most likely bilevel and fax group 3 or 4 compressed). In that case you will need to use ecconv to do a print like:

% ecconv -colormode bilevel -compression faxg4 -export tif <input file> | lpr -P <queue name>