Canon launches chipless ink cartridges for its printers

Faced with a shortage of electronic chips, Canon will produce cartridges without chips.

Did you know that there are microchips in your printer ink cartridges? In truth, these cartridges do much more than serve as your printer’s ink container. The chips inside allow them to, for example, authenticate themselves to the device to make sure they are official, or tell the printer how much ink is left inside.

Faced with a shortage of electronic chips

Unfortunately, due to the shortage of microchips that the world has been suffering from for very long months, it turned out that ink cartridges have now suffered as well. Indeed, according to an official announcement sent out by Canon’s Australian site, the company says that due to said shortages, the brand is forced to produce chipless ink cartridges.

Canon will release cartridges without chips

According to the Canon ad in question: “To make sure our customers don’t miss out on printing opportunities, Canon has innovated in the face of this chip shortage to continue to be able to supply cartridges and toners. Canon started producing cartridges without chips. While this will result in some unavoidable but nonetheless minor changes to the user experience, you will still be able to type as usual.” And that’s ultimately all that matters, right?

Canon also points out that this is only a temporary solution until the production of electronic chips can meet demand again. That being said, in order to deal with the error messages that users are sure to encounter when they want to use these chipless cartridges, Canon has already published a guide detailing how to do so on its website. period and continue printing important documents without worry. In any case, let’s hope this shortfall doesn’t last long…