HP OFFICEJET PRO 8710 ALL IN ONE PRINTER PRO
Read my review on the HP Officejet Pro 8710 printer, for more actual experiences. I will NEVER buy another HP product again. Third party cartridges - HP Blocks from refilling. Which is why I shouldn't have thrown out the OEM cartridges that came with the printer - THOSE I could refill. In the process, I found that HP tracks online the documents you print, actively blocks you from using third-party/refilled cartridges and in all other surreptitious ways 'encourage' you to pay through your nose for the grossly overpriced original HP Instant Ink cartridges. However, I finally found third-party cartridges at about $40, which worked just as well as the OEM cartridges. Prudently, I didn't opt for that purchase and went out to Staples and got a set for $105. To crown it, this guy had the temerity to try and sell me Original HP Cartridges at the (according to him) 'LOW' price of $150. Bottomline, if you choose to cancel the HP Instant Ink subscription, no matter how many days you have left in your month, they WILL switch off the service and stop you from printing - another way to ransom you into sticking to the HP Instant Ink program. I ended up paying the overages INCLUDING the garbage pages (about 150 of them). This was because my printer depleted the ink printing out the garbage - I have scanned a few pages for this review.
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I told him I had 5 months of warranty left and he basically told me to go buy a set of new cartridges before contacting tech support. This was before he started finding my Indian name amusing and took great pleasure in facetiously repeating it again and again.Īpart from being disrespectful, he was not able to find a solution. He smirked and told me, words to the effect, yeah, that's the paper work. When I called HP tech support, I got a guy (Johnny) from the Phillipines who was open about it - hey, if you cancelled the print service, can't expect to print, can you? I patiently (and politely) explained to him that per HP's email, I still had 4 days of usage left. However, the moment I filed the cancellation, the printer started printing garbled sheets - heavy, stippled dots (see attached images). I received an email from HP confirming the cancellation and stating that I would still be able to use the HP Instant Ink cartridges through the next 4 days till my subscription officially ended, but I would have to pay for any overages to my 300 page monthly print limit.
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The charges, when I calculated it prior to printing, worked out quite a lot and I decided to cancel the subscription, with 3-4 days to spare before that month's paid period expired. The next month, I had considerable more pages to print, approx 900 or so.
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I had only a 300 page credit from my 3 months that i printed at most about 20 pages per month - this was the first issue. I was not completely ok with paying the excess $1/25 extra pages - ran to more than $30, in excess of my $9.99 per month limit. Well, after the 3 months, it so happened that I had a large load of prints and went well over the 300 pages limit per month. Like an idiot, I threw out the original cartridges that I got with the printer when they ran empty. I got sent one package of CMYK (cyan/magenta/yellow/black) 952/952xl (for the black) cartridges and didn't have a chance to fully test it out. I waited so long to review as I wished to really try out the system first and then post my experience.įor the first three (free) months, I didn't really have a heavy print load, so no issues. I bought this service with my HP Officejet Pro 8710 printer in Nov 2017.