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Using self-signed certificates with QZ Tray

QZ Tray is an amazing printing tool for your browser. It allows your websites to print receipts including bar-codes using thermal printers. The only problem is that getting it all set up correctly can be a bit tricky especially if you want to suppress the untrusted dialogs/prompts that pop up when using the free version. Lucky for us, their solution is open source and from version 2.02 they allow developers to recompile the source with a self signed certificate that would suppress these popups. This is great if you cannot afford the $400 annual price tag, but getting it set up could be a painful process because they don't offer step by step instructions, and other articles on the subject are incomplete. I successfully managed to recompile the binaries using a self signed certificate and thought it might be useful if I provide step by step instructions on how to get it done. This guide will explain how to recompile the windows binaries only. But this should give you enou