Besides impeding the production of new and advanced printers, the chip crunch is also making it arduous for Canon to make printer cartridges as it used to earlier. Advertisement.

Canon is in a pickle. Its printers are not affirming the legitimacy of Canon ink cartridges, so it has to tell customers how to use other products.

Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers how to defeat its DRM Lack of chips produces "no negative effects on print quality," Canon says.

Canon has had to ship printer ink cartridges without copy protection chips due to shortages, and that's creating headaches for users. Home; News. WWDC 2025 live; iOS 26; Everything announced at WWDC; ...

Canon has become an unusual victim of the global semiconductor shortage, as its printer cartridges are not shipping with chips to confirm they contain genuine ink from the company.

If one of the printers uses the cartridges without a chip inside it, it will detect the toner level at either “100%” or “0%,” with nothing in between. If the toner is at 0%, it should be ...

The ongoing shortage means Canon can't find the chips used to distinguish Canon-produced cartridges from those made by other companies. Skip to Main Content. Menu. #AppleWWDC2025; ...

Different Canon models use different toner cartridges. To determine which specific toner cartridge is required for your model, check the fax/copy machine's manual or navigate to the Canon support ...