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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

No, it doesn't disable your printer. It disables your ink cartridges. You can then go to Staples or Walmart or Target or online at Amazon and buy HP ink cartridges that go with your printer and use those instead.

You're paying for pages, not ink. You can stop your subscription effective the next cycle, and just use up all the pages you have available on your subscription until that date.

It's $7.99/month for up to 100 pages per month. If you use less, you can get the 50-page-per-month plan for $5.49, up from $4.99 a couple of years ago.

There IS a printer plan, that comes with a printer AND Instant Ink - and if you choose not to pay for it anymore, THAT will disable your printer. But if you own your printer outright, then no - your printer won't be disabled and will still be 100% usable if you discontinue your Instant Ink subscription.

Call them on the phone, let them know you want to cancel the plan effective the NEXT billing cycle. Make sure to write down when that is on your calendar. And go to the store and buy the appropriate ink, for that day when the cartridges stop working.

If you get it at Staples, you can sign up for their rewards, and turn in those used cartridges for a $2 store credit each. You can use that toward the cost of another ream of paper (or anything else the store sells except for gift cards).

(how I know all this: I used to work at Staples, I was the 9th top HP salesperson nationwide for 6 months and received multiple awards and prizes from HP - including 6 years worth of free Instant Ink, 3 HP printers, 2 HP laptops including a $1500 gaming laptop, and $100 toward my choice of HP desktops. I was also an HP Instant Ink "beta tester" for certain programs they were trying out, and received a thermos, a mini-printer with a couple years worth of Zink paper to use in it, Starbucks gift cards, a bluetooth mini speaker, keychain, dinner and seminar at Dave & Busters with $25 in game credit while there, and a bunch of other odds and ends. If it has to do with HP ink printers and Instant Ink, I'm pretty much the person you want to ask about it.)

Hp and Microsoft are the model T’s in the computer world IMO. Slow, slow, and slower.