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HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We have a printer that appears to be setting a new trend? They are like inkjet in that they use liquid ink but they are tank based. The ink tanks are built into the printer and you buy ink in a glorified squirt bottle that you can dump into the tank via a fancy mechanism. We bought one 3 years ago and it still works today. It's still using the ink it came with (it comes with a lot of ink). If I don't print anything for a long time (maybe 4 months+) I do need to run a maintenance job but it starts working again after that. Seems pretty good to me so far.

The ink refills also appear to be reasonable cheap even if you buy first party.