Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow. The ongoing shortage means Canon can't find the chips used to distinguish Canon-produced cartridges from those made by other companies. The ongoing chip shortage ...

Your Canon fax/copy machine uses a powdered substance called toner to print text and images to a sheet of paper when you receive an incoming fax or copy a document. When the toner runs low you'll ...

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 ...

For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from buying third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their ...

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 ...

Canon is reporting that it has been forced to ship toner cartridges without chips that identify toner levels, leading to error messages when the cartridges are ...

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 ...

You have a 100-page document to send to your Canon printer at work, and you need to ensure that the entire document will go through without halting your printer -- and everyone else's print jobs -- ...

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