Canon printer owners have started and are receiving an official guidance on how to bypass the proalerts their printer, as the company is forced to sell chipless toner due to the ongoing silicon shortage.
It seems that printer manufacturers' tricks have backfired. These companies tend to "block" their printers so that they only accept them inks 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't get enough chips to integrate them into spare parts and in its ink cartridges, due to the ongoing semiconductor crisis. That's why it issued an advice to its customers so that they can manage to bypass the warnings related to DRM!.
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 at this time what he will do with the DRM chip. The only thing for sure is that this time Canon is unlikely to face a lawsuit.
