Eips

Kindles have a built-in eips command that can clear the screen, can print to the screen, can scroll the text screen, and can display PNG or JPG files to the screen.

Overview

eips is a custom e Ink support program for kindles.

Usage

Update Screen

eips ''

Print text strings

eips  [col] [row] [-h] string

Options:

• -h for highlighted text

Show image

eips -g|-b image_path [-w waveform -f -x xpos -y ypos -v]

Options:

• -g for png|jpg, -b for bitmap
• -w waveform can be gc16 gl16 or du, default is gc16
• -f for full update, default is partial update
• -x in units of pixels (does not work on K4)
• -y in units of pixels (does not work on K4)
• -v for inverted picture (does not work on K4)

Paint a retangle on screen

eips -d l=a,w=b,h=c [-x xx -y yy -w wf]

Options:

• -l gray level in hex
• -w width
• -h height
• -x xx location
• -y yy location
• -w waveform mode

(Does not work on K4.)

clear display

eips -c 

paint checker

eips -q 

(Does not work on K4.)

paint grayscale

eips -l 

(Does not work on K4.)

paint pattern

eips -p 

paint barcode

eips -r barcode

get fb info

eips -i

eips -i c

prints also colormap. Actually any(?) character instead of c will do.

Scrolling

Scroll the screen area between <first_row> and <last_row> by one row.

eips -z <first_row> <last_row>

Links

• Framebuffer for Kindle
• Geekmaster's syntax explantion (Forum)
• Geekmaster's description forum