What are your thoughts about HP Instant Ink?
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@IRJ said:
They only give you 7 days to signup which is crazy
I only gave my customers 20 minutes to think over the "deal" I offered on their chosen previously enjoyed four wheeled luxury transport
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@MattSpeller said:
@IRJ said:
They only give you 7 days to signup which is crazy
I only gave my customers 20 minutes to think over the "deal" I offered on their chosen previously enjoyed four wheeled luxury transport
car salesman at one point?
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@IRJ Perveyor of only the finest previously enjoyed luxury vehicles. Heh.
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Have not looked into this before, not using HP printers anymore since Brother surpassed them so much in that area, but it looks like a good deal.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Have not looked into this before, not using HP printers anymore since Brother surpassed them so much in that area, but it looks like a good deal.
The comparable inkjet Brother had to offer had less than half the page yield as this HP and PPM was much slower. I looked at Brother before I looked at HP
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Where is @thanksaj ?This is a printer thread. I figured he would be all over it.
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@IRJ said:
Where is @thanksaj ?This is a printer thread. I figured he would be all over it.
Probably still asleep! He was awake for 56 hours!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Where is @thanksaj ?This is a printer thread. I figured he would be all over it.
Probably still asleep! He was awake for 56 hours!!
Correction, 64.
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This program isn't great. Depending on how much color vs black you do, the program may be significantly more expensive than buying cartridges yourself, albeit more convenient.
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It seems a bit like they are trying to rush you into a deal that you'll regret later on.
I would not sign up purely because it sets of my scam alert.
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@nadnerB said:
It seems a bit like they are trying to rush you into a deal that you'll regret later on.
I would not sign up purely because it sets of my scam alert.
I want to say I did the math on this one time and it is a scam...
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@thanksaj said:
@nadnerB said:
It seems a bit like they are trying to rush you into a deal that you'll regret later on.
I would not sign up purely because it sets of my scam alert.
I want to say I did the math on this one time and it is a scam...
Yeah, you're right and that is assuming you buy HP ink. Some 3rd party ink that has great reviews on Amazon is unbelievable in expensive. Some are cheap, but give you a non-oem notice. They also 3rd party ones that cost a bit more that have chips that cause the printer not to display any message, but are still less than half the price of oem.
What do you think of 3rd party ink for inkjet printers?
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Ink just needs to die in a fire.
But that is from my perspective of printing < 5 pages per month.
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@JaredBusch said:
Ink just needs to die in a fire.
But that is from my perspective of printing < 5 pages per month.
This printer prints nearly as fast as a laser printer. 19PPM for black and 14.5PPM for color. Also the cartridges have a high capacity. Black does 2300 pages and color does 1500
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This is what I am looking at for replacement ink
$35.99 for 2 sets of ink (2 black, 2 magenta, 2 cyan, and 2 yellow)
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@IRJ said:
@thanksaj said:
@nadnerB said:
It seems a bit like they are trying to rush you into a deal that you'll regret later on.
I would not sign up purely because it sets of my scam alert.
I want to say I did the math on this one time and it is a scam...
Yeah, you're right and that is assuming you buy HP ink. Some 3rd party ink that has great reviews on Amazon is unbelievable in expensive. Some are cheap, but give you a non-oem notice. They also 3rd party ones that cost a bit more that have chips that cause the printer not to display any message, but are still less than half the price of oem.
What do you think of 3rd party ink for inkjet printers?
No, just don't.
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@IRJ said:
This is what I am looking at for replacement ink
$35.99 for 2 sets of ink (2 black, 2 magenta, 2 cyan, and 2 yellow)
Do yourself and your printer a favor...don't...
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@thanksaj said:
@IRJ said:
This is what I am looking at for replacement ink
$35.99 for 2 sets of ink (2 black, 2 magenta, 2 cyan, and 2 yellow)
Do yourself and your printer a favor...don't...
Why?
If I am paying $100 for one set of ink from HP or $35 for two sets of 3rd party ink. I could save $165 on just two ink changes which is more than the cost of the printer. Most reviews on the ink were positive (4 star rating). Some of the negative reviewers installed the ink incorrectly or some gave a negative review just because the printer couldn't read the ink levels as accurately as before.
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@IRJ said:
@thanksaj said:
@IRJ said:
This is what I am looking at for replacement ink
$35.99 for 2 sets of ink (2 black, 2 magenta, 2 cyan, and 2 yellow)
Do yourself and your printer a favor...don't...
Why?
If I am paying $100 for one set of ink from HP or $35 for two sets of 3rd party ink. I could save $165 on just two ink changes which is more than the cost of the printer. Most reviews on the ink were positive (4 star rating). Some of the negative reviewers installed the ink incorrectly or some gave a negative review just because the printer couldn't read the ink levels as accurately as before.
The panic around using third party ink is often based on the mistaken assumption that the printers are worth tens of thousands of dollars when, in fact, they are essentially disposable. Third party ink is not "quite" as reliable as OEM ink but it is often so much cheaper than even if every other cartridge destroyed your printer (they do not, that's FUD) it would be break even. In reality, one in fifty or one in one hundred causes damage and, on average, that makes third party ink nearly always the far better option.
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I almost always use third party ink, it works just fine. There is always risk, but the cost savings more than covers any concern around the risk, normally. Just make sure you are really saving money.
If you are using super high end, large format printers or something special that really does cost many thousands of dollars, maybe OEM ink is worth it or likely is the only thing available. But that's not the common printing solution.
