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== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a practice used by many major printer manufacturers including HP<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/11/23635168/hp-printer-update-brick-third-party-ink-dynamic-security</ref>, Dymo<ref>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now</ref>, Lexmark<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/hp-remotely-kills-perfectly-good-ink-cartridge-with-drm/</ref> and Canon. The manufacturers include silicon chips as part of the ink cartridges that can identify a cartridge as coming directly from the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) as opposed to an aftermarket ( | DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a practice used by many major printer manufacturers including HP<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/11/23635168/hp-printer-update-brick-third-party-ink-dynamic-security</ref>, Dymo<ref>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now</ref>, Lexmark<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/hp-remotely-kills-perfectly-good-ink-cartridge-with-drm/</ref> and Canon. The manufacturers include silicon chips as part of the ink cartridges that can identify a cartridge as coming directly from the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) as opposed to an aftermarket (often cheaper) alternative. When aftermarket cartridges are inserted, some printers will display a message suggesting the supposed dangers of using non-genuine ink and have in the past disabled device functionality when aftermarket ink is installed.<ref>https://www.wired.com/2016/09/hp-printer-drm/</ref> | ||
== Incident == | == Incident == | ||
During the global chip shortage from 2020-2023, Canon faced difficulty obtaining chips used in their printer ink cartridges. This resulted in genuine Canon ink cartridges | During the global chip shortage from 2020-2023, Canon faced difficulty obtaining chips used in their printer ink cartridges. This resulted in genuine Canon ink cartridges behaving as if they were aftermarket cartridges when inserted to some Canon printers. A support page<ref>Original: [https://www.canon.de/support/business/interim-toner/ Canon Support - Germany] Archived Dec 31st 2023: [https://web.archive.org/web/20231231021849/https://www.canon.de/support/business/interim-toner/ archive.org]</ref> on the Canon website was created instructing customers to ignore the warning/error messages that appeared as a result, stating this would cause "no negative effects on print quality". | ||
== Aftermath == | == Aftermath == | ||
The publishing of support material directly from Canon instructing customers to ignore the warning against aftermarket print cartridges drew attention on social media and from tech news outlets who considered the practice one that "consumers have long condemned as being anti-competitive"<ref>https://gizmodo.com/printer-cartridge-debacle-forces-canon-to-tell-customer-1848332901</ref> with Vice stating: "as consumers and digital rights activists have been pointing out for ages, Canon essentially admits that its own DRM is absolutely not | The publishing of support material directly from Canon instructing customers to ignore the warning against aftermarket print cartridges drew attention on social media and from tech news outlets who considered the practice one that "consumers have long condemned as being anti-competitive"<ref>https://gizmodo.com/printer-cartridge-debacle-forces-canon-to-tell-customer-1848332901</ref> with Vice stating: "as consumers and digital rights activists have been pointing out for ages, Canon essentially admits that its own DRM is absolutely not necessary”<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/canon-tells-customers-to-break-its-printer-cartridge-drm-due-to-chip-shortage/</ref>. | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 14:06, 16 January 2025
Overview
DRM (Digital Rights Management) is a practice used by many major printer manufacturers including HP[1], Dymo[2], Lexmark[3] and Canon. The manufacturers include silicon chips as part of the ink cartridges that can identify a cartridge as coming directly from the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) as opposed to an aftermarket (often cheaper) alternative. When aftermarket cartridges are inserted, some printers will display a message suggesting the supposed dangers of using non-genuine ink and have in the past disabled device functionality when aftermarket ink is installed.[4]
Incident
During the global chip shortage from 2020-2023, Canon faced difficulty obtaining chips used in their printer ink cartridges. This resulted in genuine Canon ink cartridges behaving as if they were aftermarket cartridges when inserted to some Canon printers. A support page[5] on the Canon website was created instructing customers to ignore the warning/error messages that appeared as a result, stating this would cause "no negative effects on print quality".
Aftermath
The publishing of support material directly from Canon instructing customers to ignore the warning against aftermarket print cartridges drew attention on social media and from tech news outlets who considered the practice one that "consumers have long condemned as being anti-competitive"[6] with Vice stating: "as consumers and digital rights activists have been pointing out for ages, Canon essentially admits that its own DRM is absolutely not necessary”[7].
References
- ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/11/23635168/hp-printer-update-brick-third-party-ink-dynamic-security
- ↑ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now
- ↑ https://www.vice.com/en/article/hp-remotely-kills-perfectly-good-ink-cartridge-with-drm/
- ↑ https://www.wired.com/2016/09/hp-printer-drm/
- ↑ Original: Canon Support - Germany Archived Dec 31st 2023: archive.org
- ↑ https://gizmodo.com/printer-cartridge-debacle-forces-canon-to-tell-customer-1848332901
- ↑ https://www.vice.com/en/article/canon-tells-customers-to-break-its-printer-cartridge-drm-due-to-chip-shortage/