Update on instant ink program. A friend was subscribed to the Instant Ink program that's $15 a month. It's a subscription service that monitors your printer ink levels and automatically mails new ink as needed. Last year he ran out of black ink and called, took almost two weeks to receive the ink despite them saying it would be expedited. When his card expired he decided not to continue with the subscription. Then the printer stopped working. He asked me to figure it out. He had received 2 extra cyan and 1 extra magenta cartridges. Which have not been used.
So I learned that the company owns the ink cartridges sent, and if you stop paying they automatically disable the ink cartridges. To cancel they wanted to be paid for April (they were pre-charging a month in advance in the third week of the month. The account was technically paid up until April. They also want to be paid an extra month when you want to cancel, and they want you to mail the cartridges back to them. This service is about $180 a year.
So I ordered an entire set of yellow, cyan, magenta, black for $48. He told them he would send back the instant ink if they send a prepaid shipping label. Will see what happens!
