Posted on 01/10/2022 12:29:15 PM PST by BenLurkin
Owners who buy these chip-less toner cartridges should be able to print normally, Canon notes. However, toner levels might be reported incorrectly as either “100%” or “OK” regardless of the remaining quantity, or correctly as “0%” or “Empty” in case the toner has run out. Canon says the chip-less cartridges will start arriving in February, calling them an interim measure in the ongoing silicon crisis. The company expects to resume supply of chipped parts once normal supply is restored.
Given that these cartridges will ship without a DRM chip, they might also have a lower asking price than regular parts. On the other hand, this very attribute and the fact that Canon will likely make them in limited quantities could result in jacked-up, scalper prices. Whatever turns out to be the case, at least Canon is unlikely to face a lawsuit this time around.
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Sounds like a feature, not a bug. You can tell when your toner runs out when it prints light.
All I ever buy is chipless toner cartridges for my Canon printer.
Now they are OFFICIAL!
maybe this will stop this big scam.
my all in one printer wont even let me send a fax once one of the cartridges says it is out of ink. wont even let me print in black ink when the cartridge has plenty of black ink if one of the colored cartridges goes out.
That reminds me of this cartoon about doing things manually when computers are down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/a8nta/our_computers_are_down/
One gets more exercise that way.
It is a cool racket. Sell a decent ink-jet with some attractive features for $150 or so, then charge $40 or more for a simple replacement cartridge,
Lol. The chipped ones tell you the toner is gone when there is still plenty left.
Yep. I bought an off brand laser printer once. The toner cartridges had a chip in them, so it would tell you that you are out of toner even before your printouts got light or faded, and there was nothing you could do. You couldn’t even re-use/repurpose the cartridge with new toner because of the chip.
Ink and toner are a big business. Bigger than the printer hardware. They don’t want people circumventing their milk cow
The inkjet printers are sold at near cost. They make the $ on the ridiculous ink cartridges. I use a Laserjet home printer and a cartridge last about as long as 5 or 6 inkjets. Plus it doesn’t dry up if I don’t use it for a while.
One of the reasons I always buy Brother printers is to avoid all this ‘drm’ nonsense.
Yep! Because they set the capacity on the number of pages printed. If you print MOSTLY pages with small amounts of text on them, you’ll run out of “count” before you run out of “toner”.
Just as they intended!
Back in the day when printing photos at home on an inkjet was a thing, I ordered all my cartridges through printpal. Nearly as good as Epson OEM but at a fraction of the price.
not to mention some wont even let you print if the ink is ‘out of date’
Now everybody knows................
Let me guess, you own a craptastic Epson printer because that is what my Epson printer did before I threw it out.
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Damn. I forgot the damn chips are in the ink cartridges.
We have many Canon model LBP6230w laserjets where I work. When I have to replace the cartridge on one of these, if I do not swap the chip from the old one (factory) to the new cartridge the printer will just roll or keep trying to detect the new cartridge forever.
Just one of those things...
I had an Epson like that. Wouldn’t print in black if one of the infinitesimal color cartridges was empty, wouldn’t scan, wouldn’t send faxes, I think it would actually receive faxes. As if that weren’t bad enough, once a day or so the printer would spit out a little ink from all the cartridges to “clean them” and “keep them from getting clogged”.
I straight out told Epson on the phone that they were useless oxygen thieves and criminal thugs committing fraud on their victims, er, customers, that they belonged in prison, and they had sold me their last “product”.
All-in-ones blow and Epson blows the mostest.
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