HP have a fantastic scheme called Instant Ink. It for the HP Envy series printers and is saving me a small fortune.

They monitor usage via the internet and seem to post out new cartridges before you are half way down.

When printing... page is a page... Whether one word printed in black, or as I do print full colour A4 photos!

Instant Ink starts at £1.99 a month, which gets you 50 printed pages per month. You pay for the paper, but the £1.99 pays for the ink, which is delivered to you whenever you run low.

For those who need more, the £3.49 package gets you 100 pages a month and the £7.99 one 300 pages.

You can roll over your pages too, and HP offers top-ups should you need more pages.

You get 15, 20 or 25 additional pages for a pound depending on which deal you’re signed up to. The more expensive plans get you more additional pages for a pound.

All the printers compatible with the Instant Ink service are Wi-Fi-connected, and once your ink cartridge reaches a certain level, you’ll automatically be sent a new cartridge.

Supported printers at launch include the HP Envy 4500, HP Envy 5530, HP Envy 4630 HP and the Officejet Pro 8610 and 8620.

To avoid too many deliveries, HP Instant Ink uses huge cartridges with much greater ink reserves than standard ones. HP couldn’t tell us the exact capacity, but it calls them “XXL” cartridges.

And I scrapped my HP printer in favour of a Lexmark Laser purely because of the costs..  HP seemed to dry up more than any other printer I have known.

I use my printer once in a blue moon. I have a HP and it keeps telling me to check the 'color' ink cartridge!

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It's not a scam but a way to get you subscribing to a regular payment. there is a big trend for that now. It looks better to the customer but makes more profit for the companies.

 

If it works for you then that's great. You just need to do your sums to see if it works out.

 

I've got a stinking old Samsung laser. At last top up I was £25 for 4000 pages worth of toner.

I also use a laser printer. £110 for a Dell printer and a full set of toners 3 years ago (wireless, full colour printer), and I had to buy new toners earlier this year. The full set of compatible toners cost me £20 and will last me for another 2 years or so at least. The biggest use of toner is the daughter who decided last year she was going to print off loads and loads of Christmas stuff, cards, etc. instead of buying them...

Laser printer here. £12 gets me about 3000 pages.

My wife used to work recycling toner cartridges.

 

She recommended a Lexmark as they are the most reliable and cheapest to run, so it's well over 1 year now - I do all my reports and letters on it, and my son often prints some pictures out for his homework..

 

Used just under 50% of the toner, so expecting it to last another year.

 

Besides which - the wife can always refill it

I'm having weird issues with my printer. 

When printing Hermes labels off for ebay items it won't print the skinny lines of the 

bar code, nor the lower case letter L's in the document. This means the Hermes people

have to enter numbers manually (plenty of room for error there then...) and it's just a matter 

of time until something goes walkies. 

Why the fark is it doing this.... It's doing my head in....  You can see the faces drop when I 

go to drop my parcels at the local pickup point as they know they will have to be entered manually.

Don't want to splash out on new ink in case the printer is borked...

Any ideas? Computers aren't my specialist subject.

Not all lasers are cheap, our Works HP only does ~ 1500 pages per toner and they are currently charging SIXTY FIVE POUNDS EACH!!!

 

Hence buying toner in bulk from China and refilling them ourselves.