Printer makers have long used chips to thwart third-party ink cartridge sales and drive you toward their own products, but they're now feeling the sting of those restrictions. The Register and USA ...

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. The global ...

The ongoing global chip shortage has led Canon to ship ink cartridges without chips inside them. Canon is sharing how to bypass warnings and error messages that ...

Canon printers use small, spongy pads to absorb excess ink that accumulates while printing and cleaning the print heads. When these pads are saturated, the printer ...

The global semiconductor shortage has disrupted production across the board. Although one would expect the impact of this short supply of chips to be limited to only consumer electronics, the crisis ...

As a result of the ongoing global chip shortage, Canon is scrambling to appease a wave of furious customers after its own ink cartridges are malfunctioning to be read as fake. A widespread outcry has ...

Razor-blade makers sell consumers the shaver at low prices and then make a killing selling replacement blades. Printer manufacturers do the same thing–selling their printers on the cheap and then ...

Canon printers come with printer drivers and a software package that contains an ink-level monitor that lets you know when your cartridges are low. While this monitor is helpful, it's sometimes better ...