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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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