It is difficult for a company to obtain the necessary components for their ink cartridges that validate their legitimacy for their printers.
Therefore, Canon printers often do not recognize genuine cartridges and consider them to be counterfeit, and the company has to explain to customers how they can bypass its own security system.
Semiconductor shortage leads to Canon selling toner cartridges without chips which usually identify them as genuine, so Canon now instructs customers on how [...]