Notes for Linux Package 3

Feb 24, 2016

About
The Linux Package 3 includes a new, stand-alone 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 your computer. To adjust the feature settings for a particular
printer, you highlight 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 window. Navigate to where the .deb and .rpm files are for your
architecture (32-bit or 64-bit). Find the name of the proper package for you, listed by
language and region. If you are on a Debian based distribution run:
sudo dpkg -i (package name).deb
If you are on a Redhat/SUSE based distribution run:
su
rpm -i (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-configprinter).
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, you can manually install the driver by selecting the correct model
from the driver files located at /usr/share/cups/model/kyocera.
4. Launching the UI can be done through the application launcher. The application is
listed as Kyocera Print Panel. Alternatively, the terminal command kyodialog3 can be
used.
Note that you 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 package
contents will overwrite the old package without warning.

Uninstallation
NOTE: Superuser access is required for uninstillation
1. Open a terminal window. From any location, run the following command.

On a Debian based distribution run:

sudo dpkg -r kyodialog3
On a Redhat based distribution run:
su
rpm -e kyodialog3
Usage
The UI is designed to change the default settings of a printer so that these settings will
be applied when future print jobs are submitted. For example if you wish to change some
settings, you would first launch the UI with kyodialog3, select the desired printer, and
then adjust settings to their preference. Once these settings have been applied, launch
your desired application and perform the print job as normal. The resulting print job
should have your settings applied.

Previously Known Limitations

1. Issue: Selecting Repeat Watermark when the Angle is not set to 0 degrees may
cause slow printing on some printer models.
Solution: Only select Repeat Watermark when the Angle is 0 degrees.
2. Issue: Features may appear in different order on the user interface depending on
the printer model.
3. Issue: Watermark angle is always relative to the Portrait layout, even when
Landscape is selected.
4. Issue: Printing Stamp with Outline causes an outline to print along the whole page.
5. Issue: Depending on the application and operating system, using the Watermark
feature may cause the watermark to be applied beyond normal page margins.
6. Issue: CUPS 1.6.1 causes the number of copies printed to multiply by squares, if
Collate is turned off. (For more information, refer to the following bug report:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434940 )
Solution: Downgrade CUPS to version 1.5.x, or leave Collate on, or print single
copies only.
7. Issue: LibreOffice may not always render .DOC formats correctly. Some advanced
printing features may not apply or may crash the printer.
Solution: Convert the document to .ODT first, and then apply advanced printing
features. If this does not work, try converting the document to PDF.
8. Issue: Older versions of AbiWord do not load page sizes correctly and the
document is not fully printed. This is not an issue for newer versions of AbiWord.
9. Issue: Collate-related features will not work properly when Collate is enabled from

an application. This includes Job Settings. This may still fail in OpenOffice.
10.Solution: Disable Collate before using any Job Settings (Such as Proof and hold),
or with other features such as Rotate Collate.
11.Issue: Apply must be used for each printer changed; it does not save settings for all
printers listed, only the one selected.
12.Issue: Strings are not translated when they are missing from the printer features.
They will stay in their most recently translated language. The default language is
English.
13.Issue: Printing in duplex in RHEL 7 and CentOS 7 will fail.
Solution: Install Poppler version 0.24 or newer.
14.Issue: Images embedded in pages may not print.
15.Issue: Printing a test page from the CUPS Web UI may result in filter failure.
16.Issue: Some package managers will grab the wrong architecture for required
libraries.
Solution: Make sure that the installed library is for the correct architecture.
17.Issue: On CUPS 1.6.x, printing in A4 paper size may cause Duplex to fail.
18.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.
19.Issue: Installing printers through system-config-printer forces the printer name to be
Kyocera-Mita, rather than properly pulling from the manufacturer description in the
PPD.
Solution: Installing through the CUPS interface will prevent the automatic naming
from occurring, but it does not always find the correct the printer information.
20.Issue: Booklet folding does not work with the constraints set by media size. The
media size in booklet fold is actually half the size of what is required by the printer.
21.Issue: Modifying installable options requires root access.
Solution: Kyodialog prompts for the root password when these changes are
needed.
22.Issue: Composite overprint feature does not currently work with any Linux
applications. This requires support on the application end, and only Adobe products
support this feature. Because Adobe has dropped support for its PDF viewer in
Linux, there are currently no viewers that support this feature.
23.Issue: Some Job settings options (Job storage, Private print, Custom box, Job
accounting) cannot be overridden from the application side once set in kyodialog.

Solution: Set the Job settings from kyodialog.

24. Issue: Super Watermark and duplex do not work together.
25. Issue: User login cannot accept umlaut and other special characters.
26.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. Changing su settings
should only be done if you are qualified.
27. Issue: The PCL Generic drivers have a smaller printable area, and so can often cut
off text from some applications.
Solution: Set the margins from the application.
28. Issue: Landscape documents print booklet fold with the opposite binding edge
chosen.
Solution: For left-edge binding, select right-edge binding, and vice-versa.
29. Issue: Konqueror will not display negative values in the CUPS UI (localhost:631)
properly.
Solution: Use other web browsers such as Firefox or Chrome.
30. 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>
31. Issue: Shared printers can appear in print panel when improperly configured.
These printers cannot be properly modified from print panel.
32. Issue: The Debian uninstaller will not remove all kde desktop icons. This is a
problem in how kde handles desktop icons.
Solution: These desktop icons can be removed manually.
33. Issue: Printer models FS-9530DN and FS-9130DN cannot print Booklet or Booklet
stitch with the PCL driver.
34. 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).
35. Issue: LibreOffice prints duplexed A4 documents incorrectly when A4 override is
enabled on the printer. It ignores duplex, which can cause problems with publishing.

Solution: Switch the printer language level to Postscript (Level from driver).
36. Issue: The PCL driver prints only one page at a time for large paper sizes (A3,
Ledger, B4, 8K) in CentOS 6.5-6.7.
37. Issue: The PCL driver does not work on OpenSuse 13.1. 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. However, this requires changing the mime types and is not
recommended.

Custom Settings
The following settings do not appear in the standard print dialog, only in the Linux
Package 3 UI. These settings are as follows:
- Custom Watermarks
- Custom account IDs
- E-Mail notification
- User login
- Job name information
- Private print information
- Custom box information
- Job storage access code