QTR-Quadtone RIP

Drivers will be able to be used forever you just need to sign the BOM/hash that lives in >Library/Printers/ so you need an apple developer’s key. It’s easy though. $70/yr.

Best,
-Walker



> On Oct 2, 2019, at 4:55 PM, roy@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> I've played with signing and notarizing. Had mixed results but fortunately its still ok
> 
> to have neither and still get programs installed.  Who knows when that will stop
> working.  I think I've figured the separation of system/data thing and its not a big
> problem.  But there's talk and rumors of NO printer drivers sometime in the future.
> I really don't know what that means.  Maybe printers will need to take PDFs directly.
> That would preclude QTR driver doing something differently.  So far I really don't know.
> Basically to secure everything on an OS you have to disallow system level third party code.
> 
> Even now there's a new protocol for Pro printers but it happens that they still
> accept old protocol.  Epson could drop that any time.  There's no documentation 
> on the new protocol.  
> 
> Roy
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