Ubuntu kyocera printers

Question

In Ubuntu 14.04, my Kyocera P2040dn printer prints only from the user that installed the driver. How to make it print under other users?

Answer 1

The installation should work flawlessly if you follow these steps:

1. Download the .zip archive for your printer model from www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.com
2. Search the archive for the .ppd file for your model and extract it.

3. Move it to /usr/share/cups/model/Kyocera:

   sudo mv /path/to/"Kyocera ECOSYS P2040dn.PPD" /usr/share/cups/model/Kyocera/
   

4. Restart cups:

   sudo systemctl restart cups
   

5. Add the printer using your desktop environment's GUI, be careful to use the new .ppd file.

Answer 2

I have had same problem on my FS-1020MFP and Ubuntu 20.04.

This helps me:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mnorin/kyocera-ppd-installer/master/kyocera_ppds_installer.sh

chmod +x kyocera_ppds_installer.sh
sudo ./kyocera_ppds_installer.sh

And few reinstalling with sudo systemctl restart cups

Good luck!