This sounds too good to be true. Heard about it on a podcast. A printer I bought this week for D for Christmas is a qualifying printer.
Premise is you sign up for a plan (can cancel anytime) - you get a certain # of printer pages per month per your contract and based on that, HP sends you new cartridges - no additional cost besides your month plan - when needed.
I don’t know but I’m thinking D might not even need anything more than the free plan.
Has anyone used? Pros or cons?
Sounds interesting. We have a hp printer and just purchased a bunch of ink. How do you find out which printers qualify?
Click the “view eligible printers” on the home page above.
A friend has been using soething likke this with an HP, for some time. She prints long accounting reports, spreadsheets, Power Points, and it works well for her. (Except when she’s up against her max.) But she can estimate her pages/month. Probably a good idea to have a spare cartridge, in case.
I can’t estimste my monthly printing as it caries a great deal. Our existing printer doesn’t qualify for free plan and likely we print too much anyway. I will try to be more mindful of how much we print and see if it makes sense to consider this plan. Our Costco carries our ink and is 5 minute drive from our house
We did this in the fall of 2017 and love it! It automatically sends you ink cartridges when you need them without being asked. Our first “free cartridges” lasted almost a year. We are on the $5 a month plan, I think 50 sheets each month. We started at $10 a month and you just change your plan, easy peasy. Before this, we were spending close to $200 a year in cartridges, before the colored ones were even used, because they dried up so quickly.
It’s a great plan.
So @conmama, they only send you what you need in terms of color (or black) too?
I don’t remember seeing anything about free cartridges.
When I first bought my printer, it starts with free cartridges. I don’t recall if that was a promo or what, but I don’t think so. Yes, you get cartridges in the mail when the printer tells HP it’s at a certain point. We’ve only had that once in 14 months. I do recall once, the color was doing something weird. I either talked to them in the phone or chatted online, yet they sent one out immediately.
We have had it in our small office for about a year. We are saving on ink even though we go over occasionally and boy does it save on having to run to the store because you’re out of ink or shopping around to get the best price or making sure you’ve got a spare etc. Highly recommend.
Our printer came with 3 free months and since then, about 2 years, we’ve been on the 9.99 plan. My H is an artist so between his artwork and photo printing, we can use up a lot of color. I’m sure we’re saving money and it is very, very convenient. I’ve always got a replacement cartridge handy at the moment a color runs out.
Positive so far! Yes, @conmama now I understand - the free cartridges that come with the printer!
@abasket , those free cartridges lasted a long time! And the monthly fee does not start until they send you the first refill cartridges. Another bonus.
$5 for 50 pages, that’s $.1/page. You could get your document printed at places like Officeworks or Staples for the same price, so where is the saving?
At my office I have to print a page or two for this or that all day long. It wouldn’t be very efficient to drive to a print shop for that. If you’re just printing the occasional large document Instant Ink wouldn’t offer an advantage.
The savings is your time. Who wants to print things off that they can from home at a staples. What a hassle. Or print something, then make a change and then print again.
You can’t print color for .1/page.