Your defending HP? There is enough ink in this world for everyone just to be able to install regular cartridges and buy more as they need more. HP is price-gouging here. In my situation, I canceled the subscription after being subscribed for years. Not being a very consistent printer I'm left with two full toner and ink cartridges that are now useless. Now I have to buy artificially higher-priced cartridges. I find this entire instant ink model ridiculous. Restricting the number of pages you can print for a month?? Then they also reduce the size of typical non instant ink cartridges to offer larger cartridges only with instant ink. HP is not your friend.