Buy ink cartridges or sign up for HP Instant Ink? You may have asked yourself this question on more than one occasion and still haven’t made up your mind because you failed to clear all your doubtsor because no one was able to explain the differences between one option and the other.

If you have found yourself in such a situation, take comfort in this article you will find all the answers what you were looking for and explained in a simple and clear way. If you have any other question after reading, you can leave it in the comments and we will help you solve it. Without further ado, let’s get started.

User experience with purchasing ink cartridges

In order to use ink cartridges, you must first understand two very important things:

• What models does your printer use?
• What sale price is recommended so you don’t pay more as the price may vary from store to store.

Once you know that, you’ll have to go to the store and buy the necessary cartridges. If this store does not have the units available, you should look for another store and compare prices if you want to save some money. You will waste a lot of time with all this, and you will have to pay a lot of money for each cartridge, even if you only need to print a little right now.

When printing with purchased cartridges, you need to check the ink consumption because The ink used determines your printing costs. A cartridge can print a certain number of pages, but if you print a full page, in color and/or high quality, its print capacity will decrease much faster.

This will cause the ink cartridges to run out sooner and you will have to buy new units sooner than expected, which incurs costs. Price may vary depending on printer and cartridges, but color and black and white cartridges pack It can reach 100 euros.

You will have to monitor the ink levels while using the cartridges and before they run out you will have to go to the store to buy more if you don’t want them to run out. You can also order them online, but you may be charged shipping costs or that they do not have units available at that time. To recycle used cartridges, you will have no choice but to take them to a store or recycling point.

HP Instant Ink user experience

With HP Instant Ink experience will change completely. You won’t have to worry about knowing the cartridges your printer uses or their cost. You won’t even have to monitor the ink level, you’ll forget to waste time going to the store and you’ll never have to worry about ink consumption again, because:

• It’s a service that works automatically, the printer checks the ink levels in the cartridges and orders new units when it’s low.
• You will receive the necessary cartridges at home without shipping costs.
• You can recycle used cartridges using the enclosed postage-paid envelope.
• With HP Instant Ink, it doesn’t matter how much ink you use, only the pages printed. A page printed in color will cost you the same as black and white.

Also, you no longer have to pay a lot of money for printing. With HP Instant Ink you can print from just 1.49 euros per month, and you can choose between different plans that include different amounts of pages. You can modify your subscription at any time by changing plans as there is no type of commitment.

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