Bypass Hp Instant Ink

HP Instant ink is primarily designed for home users who print on a semi consistent basis. If you print once every three months, Instant Ink might still have a plan for you (more on that later.) If you print a lot some months and not much other months, then HP Instant Ink isn’t for you. Also, if you print more than 300 pages per month, you also don’t want HP Instant Ink.This HP Instant Ink review is for users who print less than 300 pages per month, print a similar amount each month, and want to save money on their ink costs. You should also be familiar with subscription services. This is the biggest advantage to HP Instant Ink; you save money on ink. The rest of the service doesn’t matter if you don’t save money. And, to save money, you need to meet a few criteria.If your printing is very inconsistent, HP Instant Ink likely won’t save you money.

This is because you’ll be paying a subscription fee even when you don’t use it. Think of this like Netflix.

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Even if you don’t watch it, you still get charged. Well, with HP Instant Ink, even if you don’t print, you’ll get charged.Also, if you print more than 300 pages per month, you don’t want HP Instant Ink. The top teir package is for a maximum of 300 pages per month. If you want to print more than that, you’ll have to approve additional pages at an extra cost. This extra cost takes away from the savings you are getting.

If you are printing that much, you’d probably be better off with a laser printer anyway.With all that said, HP Instant Ink is designed for home users. If you are a semi-consistent home user, HP has an Instant Ink package for you. Here’s the different Instant Ink packages HP Offers. Another advantage the HP Instant Ink program is that you no longer need to go to the store to buy cartridges.Be honest, you never have spare cartridges on hand.

I know because I work at the store that sells them. You only buy cartridges when you run out of ink. And you only run out of ink in the middle of the job.This is why HP Instant Ink was created. With HP Instant Ink, you don’t have to go to the store or worry about ink levels.

Your printer orders ink when it starts to run low. It’s like the ink takes care of itself.

Whenever customers ask me for the best photo printer, I usually recommend they buy an HP. This is because photo printing at home is crazy expensive and inefficient. However, HP Instant Ink solves that problem.With HP Instant Ink, you can get photo prints for less than any print shop. By printing two photos on a letter size page, you can save even more. You’ll just need to trim the photos.With the Frequent Printing Plan, this brings your photo prints down to a possible 1.7 cents per print using this method. No other or print shop will match that price, I promise. The biggest complaint my customers have about HP Instant Ink is that your printer always needs to be connected to the internet so you can print.

And, if you’ve had a WIFI connected printer in the past couple of years, sometimes that’s easier said than done.Printers drop WIFI a lot. It’s a problem across all manufactures. HP has attempted to fix this with self-healing WIFI in their HP OfficeJet Pro 9015 and HP OfficeJet Pro 9025, but many other printers still have this issue. I recommend hardwiring to a network whenever possible.I know this is annoying, but it makes sense when you think about it. HP Instant Ink is completely structured around how many pages you print.

Earlier I mentioned how my black cartridge broke while I was moving. Because of this, I needed to contact HP’s Customer Support team to get a new one sent to me. What followed was the typical tech support runaround.Tech support made me run different tests, resets, connections, and cleanings. It took me an hour to finally get them to send me a new cartridge. Sam from HP Support was very polite and understanding. However, even when I told him I know printers very well and just needed a new cartridge, his hands are tied, and he must go through the steps.Ultimately, with all the money I’ve saved over the years with HP Instant Ink, it’s very worth an hour of headaches to keep up the great service. Even if it’s a momentary bad taste I still love the service.

This is the other complaint I get all the time, and it stems from a misunderstanding.When you cancel HP Instant Ink, your HP Instant Ink cartridges will no longer work in your printer. You’ll need to replace them with normal ink cartridges from the store.A lot of customers view this as straight up robbery. They think HP is remotely stealing their ink cartridges. Those customers are wrong.With HP Instant Ink, you are not buying the cartridges. You are buying the ability to print. As long as you keep paying the subscription fee, you retain the ability to print.

Once you cancel, you won’t be able to print using the provided cartridges anymore.To use the same example as above, it’s like Netflix for your ink. Once you cancel Netflix, you can’t watch The Office anymore, even if you downloaded it. HP Instant Ink is the same way.I hope that clears up this issue. It’s tricky to explain, especially with how emotional some customers are about it. I thought it was a great idea to just be able to use a certain amount of limited printing since we hardly use the printer.

Signed up for the minimum $2.99/month for 50 pages. 3 month free trial period, I was loving it. I was still with the ink that came with the printer, so it was fine. We were printing and maybe exceeded the 50 pages since we are still in trial period. One day my daughter printed 10 pages, never came out, and no indication as to why, the queue said it printed, so it counted the 10 pages.

Daughter re-printed the same 10 pages, and again, nothing came out, only said printed 10 pages. So I check the printer and it said no ink. I replace it with the HP Instant Ink I received from HP which I though was cool, and voila the 10 pages comes out. I called Customer Service to inform them that there is a glitch in your software regarding counting the pages even though the printer has no ink.

The software should mention that it has no ink and therefore could not print. Instead it loves counting printed pages even though there no pages being printed. Customer service said “there is no glitch in our software, so did you want to be credited for the pages?” I answered “there is a glitch in the software, and it does not matter because we are still in the trial period” Customer service said “so what do you want me to do?.” I said “I think you need to inform the developers regarding the software glitch”. Customer service “there is no glitch in the software” I said “OK goodbye” and today I am cancelling my participation in this program.

The standard ink that came with the printer may not be compatible with the Instant Ink program, but I am not sure because the printer did not indicate through their software that there is no ink in the printer. I just got screwed. I signed up for instantink with the 100 page setup. On a rare occasion I went over.

The problem was that they sent sets of cartridges faster than I needed them. I ended up with two (2) complete sets of cartridges and almost full cartridges in the printer. So I decided that I wasn’t needing cartridges that fast and being on board to retire I could forgo this convenience, so I cancelled the subscription only to learn that not only did the cartridges in hand wouldn’t work but the ones I already had loaded in the print no longer worked.

Don’t fall for this misleading hype. Unfortunately, Joe, you are right. I’ve experienced that I pay for the ability to print. However, I thought I brought the printer so I had the ability to print. I signed up for the Instant Ink program and after a couple of months, I didn’t receive cartridges when I was out of ink, so I canceled the subscription and bought cartridges at Costco so I could print. After loading the purchased cartridge, I got the message that even though this wasn’t one of their cartridges, the copies that I print using the new cartridges would be counted against my remaining subscription. A couple of weeks ago, my subscription expired and now I can’t print because it’s telling me that I have to sign up for Instant Ink for my printer to work.

HP has locked me out of my own printer. These are Costco HP cartridges, not the Instant Ink cartridges that I didn’t have anyway. Now I’ve been on hold with their virtual agent for 45 minutes trying to resolve the issue. I am in HP Instant Ink hell. “Once you cancel, you won’t be able to print using the provided cartridges anymore.”Yes, anyone can cancel anytime, there’s no cancellation fee. The Instant Ink cartridges will still work until the last day of the current billing cycle – to give customers a chance to buy cartridges from the store. Instant Ink cartridges should be replaced with store-bought cartridges after the last bill is generated and charged to the customers billing info (credit card, paypal account or prepaid balance).

The account is effectively closed after that.“The top tier package is for a maximum of 300 pages per month.”500 pages per month = $14.99 per monthmaximum roll over pages = 1,000 pages700 pages per month = $19.99 per monthmaximum rollover pages = 1,400 pagesUpgrades effective any day within the current billing cycle so if you exceed your monthly page plan, you don’t need to get billed with the overages. Downgrades will only be effective on the next billing cycle – you will get billed for the cost of your current page plan for the last time, after the last day of your billing cycle before the downgrade kicks in.

All this can be done in the customer’s online dashboard.Instant Ink Online Dashboard (instantink.com)– download invoices from previous billing cycles / know how many pages got printed – what got you billed.– know when the next cartridges are gonna be ordered– track incoming cartridge shipments / find out if there are lost shipments!– edit or keep contact and billing information updated.Lost shipments are a constant cause of customer aggravation. If a customer moves to a different address – the printers does not have a built-in GPS nor HP employ elves with 6th sense, to tell the systems that the customer is printing from a different zip code or location. Shipping address must be updated on the customer’s Instant Ink online account. Cartridges are automatically ordered and shipped – if shipment is missing, printer will run out of ink – customer will get mad.Email address is very important – keep it current or updated. If customers lost their credit card, the credit card expired or cancelled – and the system wont be able to charge. Suspension of the account happens after the last day of the billing cycle.

If the charge is declined due to insufficient funds, there is a 14-day grace period. The system will send notifications thru email. If the email address is wrong, the printer stops working because cartridges are disabled – customer has no clue except the message on the printer screen “visit HP Instant Ink website” to stare at and get mad.

All notifications are sent to email including cartridge shipments, upgrade/downgrade confirmations, and billing issues.Customer should be sensible enough to keep shipping address, billing information, and email address current as possible. Ink shipment tracking is also a clickable link from the dashboard ink shipment history. I own a HP 8610.

I love the printer. I’ve spent over $130 across the 4 years I’ve been with the program and done an ink change once. I’m not particularly complaining about the cost so far, but what’s ended up happening and what it means. I’m now getting an error that my printer can’t connect to the internet to contact HP Instant Ink, although the printer is connected enough to be able to use HP apps and print wirelessly. Every single time I print, I get an error dialog on my PC as well as have to get up to touch the printer so printing can continue.

I’ve tried connecting it with a wire (ethernet), changed the IP, turned off IPv6, checked firmware (most current version), checked drivers (most current drivers), rebooted my router, power cycled my router, opened the printer IP through the router, just in case, I mean, the little blue light is solid and the printer connects fine to HP apps, that alone means everything. It just won’t work.

The printer just will no longer connect to HP Instant Ink. I don’t know if something changed on HPs end but HP is of no use because the printer is out of warranty, anyway, so I can’t even find out. If you doubt that I’ve done practically everything I could possibly do, I’ve even tried factory resetting the printer. I’ve been depending on the community chat but that hasn’t worked. Suffice it to say, it definitely has not been worth it for me. Now I have a box of unused HP Instant Ink I won’t be able to use and that I’ll have to send back. Soured me on the HP or any type of subscription ink service like this.

I replaced a black cartridge and dislodged then reinserted the colour cartridge at the same time. The printer then stopped working because there was a faulty or failed colour cartridge. All attempts to print, even in black and white, now failed. I contacted HP who agreed to send replacement cartridges, to arrive by the next Monday at latest. By the Thursday after they had still not arrived. They were on the way, but unable to print for a week now I requested HP send spare cartridges for me to have in reserve to prevent a repeat of this breakdown of the promised service. I got agreement to this and an email confirming they would send these, and to say I should await a further email with tracking number.

Neither this nor cartridges arrived. A second contact apparently produced the same result. (I had asked to be put on to a manager during this contact, and this almost worked, but I was cut off while trying to type my explanation of the issues.) But, to my surprise after all this, I have several days later received an email with tracking number, but, just as recall from the last tracking check, Royal Mail only say the sender is preparing the item for despatch, it took several days after this, last time, before delivery.Good luck if you make the mistake of signing up for stress like this.

I don’t need it.Back to Canon for my next printer. I just bought an HP OfficeJet Pro 8210 from Best Buy, and am going to sign up for Instant Ink. This info was very helpful. Wish I’d seen this site when I was shopping lol!Joe, I’d disagree with one thing: “Be honest, you never have spare cartridges on hand. Nobody does.” I have always kept spare cartridges on hand. I’m like that. So when my 5-year-old OfficeJet Pro 8100 quit working with a printhead error (probably because I’d put a remanufactured cartridge in it and it leaked), and of course very few current printers use the same cartridges my foresightedness has left me stuck with $70 bucks or so worth of unused cartridges.

At least Instant Ink should save me from this!. So I am thinking to move to the HP 7740 ink jet for my home office. Also looking at instant ink for all the benefits described. I am a moderate user maybe 100 copies per month printing B/W and photos and graphics (I am a graphic designer). My hesitation though is that ink jet printers can be problematic as ink jets clog if the printer is not used for a period. This is my experience from owning ink jet printers.

Ink is wasted when when the printer cleans its jets thus raising ink cost. Is my concern justified?BTW like the reviews.

It is very easy to end up paying a huge amount for ink with this plan, and hard to save much. My wife was printing a lot for awhile ( class handouts), so I moved up to the $9.99 300 pages plan. Looks like 3.33 cents a page but she soon dropped to printing about 50 pages or so. HP doesn’t give you a monthly email noting how many pages you are printing, nor a billing notification, so you can end not realizing your status unless you login and check.So for months we were paying more like 20 cents a page.

The “rollover” seems like it would make up for it, but they cap the rollover, and if you move to a cheaper plan the cap drops to the smaller plan cap and you lose all the pages accrued. It is far better to use a cheaper plan and pay extra once in a while, than to move to the higher volume plan and end up paying far more.Figure this as a way to just have ink appear before you need it, and not a way to save any money on ink. I cancelled my subscription. HP’s promotion is that replacement cartridges will be sent in plenty of time prior to the need for replacement. Most recently both the black and color cartridges went out about the same time. I got an e-mail notification stating that a new cartridge was being shipped the day the printer stopped working.

So I couldn’t print till it arrived. After replacing the black replacement cartridge that was shipped I discovered the color cartridge was empty as well. I never received an e-mail notification that a replacement color cartridge was being shipped, and never received one. Inquiries to HP Support went unanswered.