You're paying $1 for 10 pages of printing a month. Stop paying, no printing. (They have larger plans, too, but if you're printing 50 pages a month, I'd bet the regular cartridges work well and don't dry up).

Don't want to pay for subscription ink? No problem, get the regular ink. Have some account problem and can't pay for subscription ink, you can still get regular ink and use that (subject to the usual inkjet printer woes that come with not printing much).

Seems like leasing a car and complaining you're expected to return it after the lease.

> Seems like leasing a car and complaining you're expected to return it after the lease.

If instead of giving the car back so they can resell it, you had to crush it or replace the engine oil with sodium silicate, then you'd be absolutely right to complain. Useful things should never intentionally be forced to become waste just to protect a business model.

Hear hear.

All the while, we as individuals are pushed harder and harder to be more efficient, more environmentally conscious and less wasteful.

How about super markets stop selling peeled oranges in plastic packaging?

> How about super markets stop selling peeled oranges in plastic packaging?

Wow that's actually a thing in the US... mind blown

Not sure about the US, I'm in the UK, but yes, it does actually happen in some supermarkets here.

I only recall seeing them in cans, but plastic wouldn't surprise me.

We the voters need to make those requirements by law

HP provide a free ink return and recycling service. Nobody is forcing you waste the ink, you wanna see it reused, send it back!

HP also use much larger capacity cartridges for this services. So under normal circumstances there’s less ink and fewer wasted hunks of plastic floating around. Not sure how you provide this service if signing up for one month got a years worth of ink, and no obligation to pay anymore.

It's also wasteful to have to send a perfectly good cartridge back and then go pick up a new one. And if HP knows how to make better, larger capacity ink cartridges, what reason other than greed could there be to limit them to their predatory subscription program?