Hi, I purchased a HP printer 6 months ago. 6 months of free ink (subscription service).
I wanted to cancel before the 6 months and a prompt said that the cartridges will be blocked if I cancel.
Any hacks that can prevent that from happening?
HP Printers and Smart Ink - How to Use Cartridges after Ending Subscription
vegemite2008 on 31/05/2022 - 14:32
Last edited 31/05/2022 - 15:35 by 1 other user
Last edited 31/05/2022 - 15:35 by 1 other user
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That's just revenue raising!
Or an Epson Ecotank. Expensive at 1st, but like buying a Tesla. Extremely cheap to run.
Great idea if you print a lot. But most of my printer-related costs are the result of needing a printer very occasionally, but only very occasionally. And when I do need it finding that the ink has dried in the print head, and the only fix is to throw away what is otherwise and perfectly good low mileage printer, and buy another one.
You can cancel your plan at any time. The terms and conditions say what happens if you do. You have to remove the HP Instant Ink cartridges and fit "standard" cartridges. It doesn't say they stop working, it just says a plan downgrade or cancellation is effective after the last day of your current billing period.
They had to do something like disabling the cartridge if you didn't renew to stop OzBargainers signing up for 1 month so they got a cartridge cheap, then immediately cancelling and continuing to use the cartridge until it ran out. Then signing for a month again to get another cartridge.
Actually if HP wasn't a company that a few years ago I put on my list of companies that I will never deal with again in my life, this ink plan thing would attract me. $1-99 per month for cartridges is far cheaper than the cost of continually replacing cartridges on my Epson, only to have them emptied by periodic head cleaning, and it costing me about $10 for ink per page I actually print.
Any hacks that can prevent that from happening?
For sure, Google around with your specific printer make/model and I'm sure there will be posts about how to get around that (since those hacks are essentially what the 'generic' cartridges have to do to be able to be used in those ink printers in the first place).
That said, the true hack is to not countenance this sort of monopolistic behaviour from ink printer companies in the first place and switch over to laser/toner.
HP's Instant Ink scheme also applies to laser toner cartridges, just at a slightly higher price.
Wow, no hacks offered. 😊😊😊
Probs just swap the chip
Buy laser printer. Bye bye headache