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.

Canon is in a pickle. Its printers are not affirming the legitimacy of Canon ink cartridges, so it has to tell customers how to use other products.

Now, printer maker Canon has had to resort to shipping ink cartridges without chips inside. These chips are used to detect toner levels and to verify the authenticity of ink cartridges.

Canon typically uses chips to verify that cartridges used in its printers are the company's own, as well as to do things like monitor toner levels.

Along with the announcement, Canon shares the list of printer models that will be affected because of a short supply of cartridges with chips. It also shares instructions to override warnings ...

Update 1/12 1:05PM ET: Canon told Engadget its focus was to "limit possible disruption" to customers, and that included shipping toner cartridges without the anti-knockoff chips.

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That's significant because Canon has made a lot of money selling cheap printers which will only print using ink and toner cartridges with Canon chips in them. Canon's not alone in this practice ...

Yeah, not fun. Meanwhile, Canon has had to tell its customers how to bypass an override this digital rights management tool that allows them to use their ink cartridges. They used this previously ...

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Further posts [1. 2] found by BleepingComputer also shows Canon telling customers that all inks tanks must contain ink if they wish to print in greyscale, as it may damage the printer.