Canon will start to release cartridges for printers without chips. This is reported on the company’s website.
The branch of the company in Australia and New Zealand made a statement in which he reported on changing the procedure for the production of cartridges for printers and MFPs. In Canon, they said that the global shortage of semiconductors hit the corporation and forced to launch the production of consumables without special chips. Located on each cartridge chips guaranteed its originality. Also, using them, users received notifications that the supply of paint comes to an end.
“Canon began producing toner cartridges without chip,” the statement says. The company noted that this is a temporary measure, and the production of ordinary cartridges will resume after the end of the deficit.
Canon representatives noted that the lack of chip will practically affect the functionality of the equipment. Nevertheless, users should personally control the resource of each cartridge. Deliveries of consumables without chip will begin in Australia and New Zealand at the end of February.
In December, sources among Apple partners said that the company was forced to stop the production of the iPhone due to the shortage of components. As the authors clarified, usually in October Chinese factories are moving to 24-hour work mode to increase the production of gadgets on the eve of the Christmas holidays.