Canon produces chipless toners for business printers due to chip shortages – Computer – News

Canon has started producing chipless toner cartridges for its business printers. The company does this because of the persistent chip shortages. It concerns toner cartridges for business printers and multifunction printers.

canon says that it is currently facing challenges in getting enough ‘electrical components’ for its printers. In order to guarantee continued supply, the company has opted to omit the semiconductor components until normal supply volumes are restored in that area.

On the German website gives Canon a list of affected printers; this usually involves a large number of imageRUNNER models. on his Australian support page Canon says it will start supplying these chipless toner cartridges in Australia and New Zealand from February. It is not clear whether that timing also applies to other regions.

This step of omitting the chips in the toner cartridges may mean that the ability to check how much ink is left is no longer functioning. Canon emphasizes that customers can continue to print normally, but there will be a slightly changed user experience.

The company also provides brief instructions on how customers should deal with a device report that the toner cartridge is not recognized; that doesn’t take much more than ignoring or clicking away the notifications. The latter has to do with checking whether it concerns official toners; this step cannot be performed without the chips either.

The chip shortages do not only affect the business print market. The supply of printers for consumers has also not been at the normal level for some time.

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