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Expected: I cancelled our subscription with HP and they blocked us from being able to use the rest of the ink in our cartridge. (younsfw.com)

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[–] pizzahoe@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't believe this is legal.. is there seriously a subscription model even if you've bought a printer? Does this happen with all hp printers?

[–] aelwero@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's worse than it sounds... You're not actually paying for ink, you're paying for pages, in a similar context to how you used to pay for minutes for your cell phone.

A buck a month gets you 10 pages printed, 100 pages printed a month sets you back $6/mo, and so on.

The ink is shipped "free" when your cartridge runs out, and naturally, they figured out how to increase the ink capacity in the carts to be much higher than the ones they sell, so shipping a cart out will be much less frequent if you're ponying up for each page you print.

Odds are it'll be cheaper over the life of your printer as long as you're a member of the residual income brigade...

[–] exohuman@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Jeez… with that you might as well do as I do and just go to Staples and print from there. No need to buy a machine or paper and it’s cheap.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Wow, you could have your documents printed at the professional copy/print store for a lower price per page.