Past customer, now buys own cartridges for work and switched to supertank. It's a great option if you print on a steady basis, prints lots of photos, or only print occasionally and don't mind paying a few bucks a month to avoid cartridge trouble. I will still recommend it to other people. More on reddit.com

You should have gotten a different brand of printer. HP's ink practices should be criminal. More on reddit.com

Because that is how they really make their money. Selling printers at a slim profit margin, or even a loss, to then charge even more than the printer itself just in ink. They justify it by claiming they have magical extra rich qualities but also insist most of the cost is from R&D. It's the same with Epson and other manufacturers. And most of them have also sued third party manufacturers and pursued aggressive takedowns of resellers online (despite supreme court rulings allowing third party sales) just to retain monopoly. This is why you also see them push out stealth firmware updates to brick third party ink even for printers that previously supported it. Then they take it even further by effectively putting time-expiration dates on cartridges or gradually diminishing the ink inside so you have to more frequently order more. And if you run out of "cyan" or even "light cyan" sub-ink then you can't print at all! Other than the 'tank' varieties and no-cartridge mods, I would never recommend cartridge ink printers anymore. I have used a $60 monochrome Brother laser printer from Walmart for more than a decade and a $15 toner cartridge lasts 4,000 prints. More on reddit.com

Buy a Brother printer. They give zero fucks. You can take a watery dump in it and it will still print. More on reddit.com