If one of the printers uses the cartridges without a chip inside it, it will detect the toner level at either “100%” or “0%,” with nothing in between. If the toner is at 0%, it should be ...

A useful feature, certainly, but one that printer companies often use to lock out third-party cartridges—without the chip, the printer will say it doesn’t know how much ink or toner is inside ...

Our family laser printer recently started flashing the “Low Toner” warning. I did the usual trick of rocking the cartridge, and then allowed the Geeklings to print out their essays and ...

If you can’t find specific instructions for your model, there are some catchall methods: Try removing your toner cartridge and leaving the toner bay open for 15 or 20 seconds—the printer’s ...

Most toner cartridges have a small sensor hole on the non-gear side of the cartridge, covering this up with a small piece of electrical tape might bring your printer back to life.

Some of Canon’s own toner cartridges are now being detected as fakes — and they’re forcing the company to teach customers how to bypass its ink DRM.

Toner is one of those everyday products we all take for granted. When the printer runs low you pop a new cartridge in—out of sight, out of mind. Well, we got to wondering what’s actually in ...

"As such, we’re now shipping toner cartridges for some of our MFP devices without this chip to ensure we’re still providing a continuous supply of consumables to our Canon U.S.A. customers.

Some printer firms outright block third-party toner and ink, despite customer blowback and lawsuits. Brother’s laser printers have historically worked fine with non-Brother accessories.

On Wednesday, Canon USA confirmed that it's shipping chipless toner cartridges for some of its multifunction printers, but it stressed that there's no shortage of the cartridges themselves, ...

Brother, a leading printer manufacturer, has faced allegations that it is using firmware updates to restrict the use of third ...