For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from buying third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their chip ...

In a press note, Canon has announced the global chip shortage prevents it from making toner or printer cartridges with chips that are used to check for their authenticity. As a result, Canon ...

I bought a cheap laser printer a couple years ago, and for a while, it worked perfectly. The printer, a Brother HL-2040, was fast, quiet, and produced sheet after sheet of top-quality prints ...

Canon is reporting that it has been forced to ship toner cartridges without chips that identify toner levels, leading to error messages when the cartridges are ...

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

Last week, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to corporations that try to use patent law as a weapon against other firms, saying that companies can only be sued for patent infringement in the ...

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 ...