All-in-on printer recommendations?

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CONCLUSION: we did buy the HP Pro 9025 at Staples.
https://www.staples.com/hp-officejet-pro-premier-wireless-all-in-one-color-inkjet-printer/product_24386706
We are doing the InstantInk plan.

It came with a small amount of starter ink. My husband signed up for InstantInk. We are doing the $9.99/month plan (300 pages/month) because there was a special that included about 2 years of ink at that plan… When he signed in, we had $280 credit (not sure why it was more than $240 expected, possible fluke). The new ink came the next week, but we won’t need it for a while. After that, I think the printer will detects when ink is getting low and orders it (or will alert us to order it).

The Staples store price was $399, but when we showed $369 on their website we got that price. We also decided to spend the $60 for 4 year store warranty because it supposedly allows us to just swap for new printer (or get $400 credit if that model no longer available).

NOTE: Printer inventory is low at stores. We got the last HP on the shelf. That was good because we were not in love with any of the few other brand/models that were in stock.

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I just read a disturbing thread on Epson printers. Evidently if you load their firmware “updates” (or need to reinstall a driver), it locks you into only using the expensive Epson ink. I know there are warnings about using independent ink cartridges, but this update freezes the machine so that is no longer possible. Definitely knocks Epson out of any running for me.

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Well update on the HP ink: I was able to locate the yellow on some obscure website and was worried that tit might not be legit, but it arrived today!

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Didn’t a US court or the DOJ rule that printer companies could not render generic ink cartridges inoperable in their printers? Years ago I had a problem with using generic laser cartridges in my Minolta printer (always got an error message). Same thing with no name replacements for HP ink jets. Bought a new Epson XP 420 four years ago and have used third-party ink jet cartridges that have worked out great and saved me a bundle of money.