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The worldwide chip scarcity has had quite a lot of penalties. Whereas we anticipated many merchandise to be powerful to seek out, among the outcomes of the scarcity are extra stunning. For instance, Canon places chips in a few of its ink and toner cartridges in order that its printers can establish them as real cartridges. Nonetheless, these chips are troublesome to seek out so Canon has been manufacturing cartridges with out the chips, resulting in some printers figuring out real cartridges as counterfeit.
Canon Europe has issued a assertion explaining the scenario and offering customers with directions on the right way to bypass the corporate’s DRM. You’ll be able to learn the assertion under:
As a invaluable buyer we respect your continued use of Canon merchandise.
As a result of ongoing world scarcity of semiconductor elements, Canon is presently experiencing challenges in procuring particular digital elements which can be utilized in our consumable merchandise for our multifunction printers (MFP). These elements carry out such features as detecting remaining toner ranges.
To make sure you get pleasure from a steady and dependable provide of consumables, we’ve chosen to provide consumable merchandise with out the semiconductor part till regular provide resumes.
Whereas there isn’t any destructive influence on print high quality when utilizing consumables with out digital elements, sure ancillary features, reminiscent of the flexibility to detect toner ranges, could also be affected.
The assertion additionally outlines completely different steps for bypassing the difficulty throughout completely different fashions (though none presently seem like Canon picture printers). The answer is to disregard warning messages and perceive that not all features will work appropriately. In whole, 19 fashions are affected. You’ll be able to see the total checklist of affected fashions right here.
The messaging that’s meant to make sure clients buy solely official ink from Canon can successfully be ignored with none main points. YouTuber and proper to restore advocate Louis Rossmann has made a video about this subject. Rossmann factors out Canon’s official help documentation is now normalizing the thought of hitting ‘I agree’ or ‘OK’ on a mindless error message. And if you should use ink with out the chip that assures the printer that it is real, what’s even the purpose of the DRM on ink cartridges?
