This is such a shit clickbait article [in fact hardly even an article. A brief paragraph attached to a Canon press release]. "Canon tells customers how to bypa

This is such a shit clickbait article [in fact hardly even an article. A brief paragraph attached to a Canon press release]. "Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM" = "When your canon printer tells you the cartridge is empty, just ignore the warning and keep printing". Anyone who has a Canon printer knows this already. Bypassing the DRM would mean Canon providing you with a way to use unchipped cartirdges in their printers, which isn't happening, in spite of what the 'article' claims [or if it is happening, it's not covered at all]. When my lottery ticket comes up, I'm going to take great pleasure in smashing my Canon printer into a million pieces with a sledge-hammer. The 'ink has run out' messages don't bother me [as said above, just hit 'OK' and continue printing]. But what drives me insane is the fact that, if a dust mote lands on one of the cartridges, it can move it so very slightly that the printer no longer recognises it [presumably the chip contacts move out of alignment]. When I send a print job through, the printer then clanks, wheezes and groans for what seems like about 5 minutes, as if it's going to print, then makes an annoying Beep! Beep! Beep! and tells me one of the cartridges canot be recognised. I open the top of the printer, wait another aeon for the print head to clank into access position, reseat the offending cartridge and close the lid. Then wait another ice-age for it to clank and groan before... Beep! Beep! Beep! Now one of the other cartridges can't be recognised. Sometimes I have to play this game of 'Cartridge Whack-a-Mole' for about half an hour, before the bloody thing decides it will deign to print. And, even then, it'll often print the first page absolutely perfeclty but the second will come out looking as if someone's shoved a tonne of quick-drying cement up the print-head nozzles. Thus leading to running the head cleaning procedure which, in turn is likely to lead to more Beep! Beep! Beep!-ing, as cleaning the heads is almost guaranteed to either empty one of the cartridges, or knock it out of alignment again. So, forgive my ire about the vacuuous promises of the title of this submission. I dared to believe it was going to reveal an officially sanctioned 'hack' to allow me to lobotomise my Canon printer for once and for all. Incidentally, although my printer is a Canon and I loathe it with a passion, I don't think Canon's printers are any worse than any others. Printers just seem to be one area of computer technology that has never got any more reliable with the passing years. I used to work in a university Graphics department. We had some big A0 roll printers there which cost thousands of £££s. They were always going wrong too. As were the expensive colour laser printers and high end inkjets. Basically, printers are bastards sent to torment us.