No, none of the comment is wrong, you're just confused.
> IIRC the printer will work without internet for a while (a week?), eventually you'll have to hook it back up though. (Makes sense to me if you're paying by the page.)
In other words printer doesn't work without Internet.
You know you have a bad point when the creators of the thing don't even agree with it:
https://instantink.hpconnected.com/us/en/terms
If Your printer is not connected to the Internet, then the Instant Ink-activated Cartridges will be disabled and You will not be able to use them to print;
A grace period doesn't change anything about this.
> You can't run out of pages. If you overrun your subscription, you just pay a few cents per extra page.
In other words... you can run out of pages.
When you out of pages you're automatically forced to buy more pages, and if you don't, the printer won't print, regardless of ink level.
And the rollover had me howling with laughter, by capping rollover HP figured out away to literally take ink out of your printer if you don't use it!
Except it's "pages" they claw back of course, and instead of taking ink out, they just require you to pay for an additional month if you plan to use it even though it's sitting in the printer :D
> Cost-wise, the subscription is actually a pretty good value compared to buying cartridges outright.
It's not unless you buy the $20 a month plan and print 4,000 pages a month and they're mostly color...
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/hp-officejet-pro-9015-all-in-o...
> If you buy the highest-yield XL ink cartridges (2,000 pages monochrome and 1,600 pages color) for this AIO, each monochrome page will cost you about 2.2 cents and each color print will run about 8.8 cents. Subscribing to the company’s highest-yield Instant Ink subscription (700 pages for $19.99 per month, with each additional 20 pages for $1), each page will cost you 2.9 cents… Hence, it is with colorful, content-heavy pages that Instant Ink delivers the best value…
God help you if you're one of the unfortunate souls suckered into an "occasional use plan"...
You pay 6 cents a page
At which point even color prints are more expensive!
And this is literally anything you print! Even a piece of paper that says "the" costs more than a full page full glossy color photo from a cartridge!
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C'mon, you really thought HP would literally lease you an ink cartridge and it'd be a good deal?
Because that's what Instant Ink is btw... they own that cartridge: https://support.hp.com/ee-en/product/hp-photosmart-microlab-...
It's genius really, they invented a program that mostly entices occasional users.
And charges them more than the ink would be worth even at first party prices (let's forget about 3rd party refills lol)
And then caps rollovers so that they can lose value which is an indirect way of... magically stretching ink.
Truly mind bendingly incredible but evil stuff. Kudos to whoever taught of it.