Ugh! So I decide to no longer use the HP Instant ink. I canceled my subscription and bought new ink cartridges. Once the subscription ran out, I could no longer use the cartridges from instant ink. Fair enough. I put in the new ones and low and behold, the printer detected they were not HP cartridges and would not let me use them. I am now stuck between the ridiculously expensive HP cartridges or signing back up for instant ink. I had to find an older firmware to down grade to use the new cartridges.
Its not the cost. Its being held hostage and being forced that just makes me so mad. HP has definitely lost a customer.
I feel the same way about Microsoft leaning towards making you have a MS account to sign in with.
Can someone recommend a printer that I can actually buy and own?
HP suggests that it should still work, be we know there is a catch:
That said, a hack is not readily apparent yet.
I have a Canon color laser multifunction, it’s decent but all of these things take WAY TOO LONG to wake up from sleep if you are wireless (direct or wifi). It is otherwise a good printer, far faster than our old Samsung, double sided printing and 2 side at once copy/scan with a sheet feeder. Toner is what toner costs, not cheap in a color printer if you buy genuine toner.
And because it is color and single pass color, it’s BIG.
A lot of people recommend Brother. If using inkjet, make sure whatever you buy is pigment black ink for waterproof documents. The important parts of prints are almost always black ink. I would go with an HP or Canon inkjet these days, had my fill of Epson a long time ago. And yes that applies to photo specific printers too, the ability to replace the print head without a service visit is a very big deal. The inks are easily on par for fade resistance for either HP or Canon, both has high gamut dye and extra long life pigment versions.
There may be antitrust legal action happening from these HP printers, it’s not like they give you the printer for free, you still pay the full retail price to get them (unless I’m mistaken).