Canon printer owners have started receiving official guidance on how to bypass their printer warnings, as the company forced to sell chipless toner due to continued silicon shortage.
It seems that printer manufacturers' tricks have backfired. These companies tend to "block" their printers so that they only accept them inka of the official company.
They use techniques that are called DRM, with which they try to lead their customers to dig deep into their pockets when it comes to replacing a cassettes toner or other parts with a "genuine" replacement.
In an ironic turn of events, Canon has revealed that can not get enough chips to integrate them into its spare parts and ink cartridges due to the ongoing semiconductor crisis. That's why she issued a piece of advice to her clients so that they can bypass DRM-related warnings !.
The reason is that the lack of silicon has forced Canon to manufacture chipless toner cartridges, at least for some of its professional printers and Appliances multiple functions. The official announcement of the company currently concerns customers in Australia, New Zealand and Germany.
The affected models are several models in the imageRunner series, and Canon has assured users that the new chip-free cartridges will not have a negative impact on print quality. The company also reportedly informs customers via email.
Of course, the absence of DRM chips from Canon toner cartridges means that even if you put in a genuine toner cartridge, the machine will see it as an imitation. As a result, users will see DRM-related warnings and prompts. This is why Canon also contains steps to bypass these messages.
According to the company announcement, there is a possibility that customers will see wrong toner levels, as these can be incorrectly referred to as "100%" or "OK" regardless of the remaining quantity, or correctly as "0%" or "Empty" ”In case the toner is exhausted.
Canon says chip-free cartridges will hit the market in February, calling them an intermediate measure in the ongoing silicon crisis.
It is unknown if those containers that will ship without the DRM chip will have the same price with normal parts or lower. The only thing that is certain is that this time it is Canon unlikely to face a lawsuit.