Kyodialog 4 June 16, 2017 About The Kyodialog 4 Package includes a new, standalone UI that organizes and enhances printer features using a convenient tab system. In the UI, the Printer tab lists all of the installed Kyocera printers on the user's computer. To adjust the feature settings for a particular printer, a user highlights the device in the printer list, and then navigates through the tabs, making feature adjustments as desired. These changes, if applied, will be the new printer default settings. ---------- Installation NOTE: Superuser access is required for installation. 1. Open a terminal. Navigate to the appropriate .deb or .rpm file. For Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Debian, run the following command: sudo dpkg -i (package_name).deb If dependencies are required, run the following command: sudo apt-get -f install For RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS, run the following command as root: yum install (package_name).rpm or dnf install (package_name).rpm For OpenSUSE, run the following command: sudo zypper (package_name).rpm 2. Connect to the printer using the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) Web interface at http://localhost:631, or using the native Linux Printer Settings dialog (system-config-printer). 3. Autodetection of the printer model should occur, and the correct driver should be installed automatically. If, however, the system does not have autodetection, or autodetection fails, the user can manually install the driver by selecting the correct model from the driver files located at /usr/share/ppd/kyocera. 4. Launching the UI can be done through the application launcher. The application is listed as Kyocera Print Panel. Alternatively, the terminal command kyodialog4 can be used. Note that the user cannot install more than one package at a time. In RedHat distributions, this will cause an error due to overlapping files. In Debian distributions, the packages contents will simply overwrite the old package without warning. ---------- Uninstallation NOTE: Superuser access is required for uninstallation. 1. Open a terminal window. From any location, run the following command. On a Debian based distribution run: sudo dpkg -r kyodialog On a Redhat based distribution run as root: yum remove kyodialog On OpenSUSE run: sudo zypper remove kyodialog ---------- Usage The UI is designed so new printer default settings can be created for your printer. A user wishing to print with different settings must first launch the UI with kyodialog4, select a printer, and then adjust settings to their preference. Once these settings have been applied, launch the desired application and execute the print job as normal. The resulting print job should apply the new default settings. Some applications may use their own methods for setting page sizes. For these applications, the user must set the page size within the application. Kyodialog cannot set some features like page orientation and N-up. These settings must made within the application. ---------- Telemetry This application uses Google Analytics, analytical services provided by Google Inc., to gather and help analyze information on how users use this application and/or network printers. This information helps us improve the quality of this application and/or the products. The application does not collect any personal data. For details, please see www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners Toggle telemetry by: 1. Open a terminal, and enter: kyodialog4 --telemetry [true|false] - OR - 1. Open the Kyocera Print Panel. 2. Click the Kyocera logo in the bottom left corner. 3. On the About page, click the Data collection button. 4. Make your selection and click OK. ---------- Known Limitations 1. Issue: Watermark angle is always relative to the Portrait layout, even when Landscape is selected. 2. Issue: Printing Stamp with Outline causes an outline to print on the whole page as well. 3. Issue: Depending on the application and operating system, using the Watermark feature may cause the watermark to be applied beyond the page margins. 4. Issue: LibreOffice may not always render .DOC formats correctly, causing some advanced printing features to fail. Solution: Convert the document to .ODT first, and then apply advanced printing features. If this does not work, then convert the document to PDF and then apply advanced printing features. 5. Issue: Collate related features and Job Settings will not work properly when Collate is enabled in the application. Solution: Disable Application Collate before using any Job Settings (i.e. Proof and Hold), or with other features such as Rotate Collate. 6. Issue: Save settings never applies to all listed printers. When you click Apply, only the selected printer is changed. 7. Issue: Occasionally, images embedded in pages will not print. 8. Issue: Printing a test page from the CUPS Web UI may result in filter failure. 9. Issue: On CUPS 1.6.x, an A4 size print job may fail to duplex. 10. Issue: Using Collate features in some applications will cause the job to split into multiple jobs, which may be directed into different trays depending on output tray capacity. 11. Issue: Booklet folding does not work with the constraints set out by media size. The media size in booklet fold is double the size of what is required by the printer. 12. Issue: Super Watermark and duplex do not work together. 13. Issue: Systems which require su to be run from tty cannot use su for changing installed options. This is set by default in most Debian based systems. Solution: Either use sudo authentication to change installed options, or change system settings to allow su to be run from an application. 14. Issue: The PCL Generic drivers have a smaller printable area, and may cutoff text within some applications. Solution: This can be solved by setting the margins within the application. 15. Issue: Booklet fold documents in landscape orientation use the opposite binding edge than one selected. Solution: For left-edge binding, select right-edge binding and vice-versa. 16. Issue: Konqueror will not display negative values in the CUPS UI (localhost:631) properly. Solution: Use other web browsers such as Firefox or Chrome. 17. Issue: Printer configuration files will not be removed when a printer is deleted. Solution: These configuration files can be removed from /usr/share/kyocera/<username>/<printer name> 18. Issue: Shared printers can be displayed in Print Panel when improperly configured. These printers cannot be properly modified from Print Panel. 19. Issue: The Debian uninstaller will not remove all KDE desktop icons. This is a problem with how KDE handles desktop icons. Solution: These desktop icons can be removed manually. 20. Issue: The FS-9350DN and FS-9130DN cannot print booklet or booklet stitch with the PCL driver. 21. Issue: LibreOffice 4.1.X does not support publishing features by default. Solution: In printing properties, change the Printer Language type from Automatic PDF to PostScript (Level from driver). 22. Issue: LibreOffice duplexes A4 documents incorrectly when A4 override is enabled on the printer. It ignores duplex. Solution: Switching the printer language level to PostScript (Level from driver) will correct this issue. 23. Issue: The PCL driver cannot print more than one page at a time for large paper sizes (A3, Ledger, B4, 8K) in CentOS 6.5-6.7. 24. Issue: The PCL driver does not work on OpenSUSE 13.1 and CentOS 6.5. This is because the gstoraster filter provided by the distro does not work with PJL commands. Solution: The filter could be replaced with the pstoraster filter, which works with PJL commands. This requires changing the MIME types though but it is not recommended. 25. Issue: TASKalfa 300ci has resolution problems when using the Generic driver. 26. Issue: LibreOffice cannot pass the copy count properly to the PCL driver when the base printer language is PostScript. Collate and other features relying on multiple copies will not work. Solution: Switch the Printer Language Type to PDF in the printer device properties in LibreOffice. 27. Issue: IPP installed printers will not be displayed in kyodialog4 for CUPS 2.1 or higher. 28. Issue: KDE Applications can overwrite the lpoptions file used to save settings from the print dialog. This can be avoided by not using the application's preference dialogs. 29. Issue: Okular will fail to print when N-up and Watermark are selected together for the PostScript PDL. Solution: The PDF Filter can support Watermark and N-up for 2- and 4-up. 30. Issue: The PDF Filter cannot print watermarks with a ReportLab version < 2.4. 31. Issue: The system-config-printer utility may report that it is unable to identify USB printers before properly selecting the correct driver. 32. Issue: GtK+ Applications can truncate Job Accounting ID's with leading zeros. 33. Issue: PCL Generics does not support predefined Job accounts. 34. Issue: Watermark relies on TrueType fonts, and can print some characters incorrectly. 35. Issue: In Kubuntu 16.04, kyodialog4 will not display correctly unless the Default theme is used. 36. Issue: The system-config-printer utility may leave strings untranslated when a printer is first installed. 37. Issue: Print Panel may not refresh the printer list accurately. Solution: Close Print Panel when changing printer list (add, remove, or change IP) and open Print Panel after making changes. ---------- Custom Settings These settings will not appear in the standard print dialog, only in the Linux Package 4 UI. These settings include: - User Login - Job Storage Access Code - Private Print information - Custom Box information - Any Publishing feature