You're not paying for ink cartridges silly, you're paying for how much you print!
It all makes sense: if you stop paying for the service, you stop receiving the service, duh!
It's not illegal so it's crazy that people think they're this evil corporation!
Most of these shitty printer companies have been trying to do this for awhile. They have been selling printers for dirt cheap to lock people into overpriced ink cartridges that run out way too fast. This is why it's worth buying a printer that isn't garbage and has a lot of non-oem ink cartridge alternatives
I worked at a Staples when I was young and would tell people it was probably more cost efficient to throw out their $25 printers when they ran out of ink and buy a new one.
Yeah my father was and old school programmer and suffered making printer drivers for Canon so I learned all about the grift. They love peddling this garbage to people who are just trying to buy printers for like their kids going to college and whatnot
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yeah my parents did this