HP says "3rd party cartridges are unsafe, they can infect our printers" all I'm hearing is "HP printers are unsafe, they are vulnerable to compromised cartridges"
solution: don't use HP, use printers without "smart" cartridges.
Best printer I've ever owned....HP Laserjet 1012. Build over 20 years ago. It's pre-chip so I can still easily find generic toner cartridges on Amazon for cheap. Use almost daily for all these years. Thanks last generation of HP engineers. Simple, cheap and reliable. I couldn't ask for anything else in a printer.
HP CEO Enrique Lores has sought to justify the company's controversial Dynamic Security feature, which disables any printer with a third-party cartridge installed, by stating that non-HP cartridges might be used to inject malware into the printer and, therefore, the network it's on. Although HP cites a single research article to back this claim, several security experts have contradicted it, saying the risk is practically non-existent, and that HP could easily patch the threat through other means.