Not printing A3

Asked by Hamidreza Jafari

It is not possible to print A3 from most applications except from Libreoffice. Most applications treat A3 instruction as A4 which is wrong although I put in A3 paper. Printer scales down A3 print jobs to A4. Since the printer is branded as full Linux support I don't think it is a matter of updating HPLIP although I tried that path too but there were problems that I will mention.

Printer: HP Officejet 7612
OS: Kubuntu 17.04
Installed HPLIP: 3.16.11

Question 1: why is it that printing A3 from Libreoffice works but from other applications (that I have tried) fails.
Question 2: why HPLIP installer recommends to enable main, universe and multiverse repos but some required packages are not to be found there such as pyqt5-dbus. Does HP require users to download source code, compile and be on their own? HPLIP did not install.
Question 3: what is the problem?

Observation: it seems a qt bug at https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58733

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