pcb 606 to the flanges 510 and 512 or some other suitable technique optionally the replacement chip may be held in place by a replacement support member 620 smaller than the support member 514 shaped to the appropriate size for supporting the larger replacement chip 602 and attached to the toner cartridge in the general area where support member 514 was removed the support member 620 may comprise many suitable materials including plastic and adhesive for example in another aspect of the present invention as shown in the modified chip holding structure 600 u2032 of fig6 a only a portion of the support member 514 is removed to form a supporting structure 614 sized to support the bottom of the replacement chip 602 other techniques may also be utilized to hold the replacement chip in the slot of the modified toner cartridge fig7 shows a cross sectional view of a new chip holding structure 700 holding a replacement chip 702 in accordance with one aspect of the present invention the replacement chip 702 may comprise contacts 704 on one side of a pcb 706 communicatively connected to a processing unit 708 such as a microcontroller for example due to the size of the processing unit 708 or other.