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This has definitely been available for more than a year, but no more than about ten, from my memory. Edit: Looks like it started in 2013, under Meg Whitman. [1]
by pishpash 6y ago
This has definitely been available for more than a year, but no more than about ten, from my memory. Edit: Looks like it started in 2013, under Meg Whitman. [1]
Also, this user says it was ad-sponsored! [2]
[1] https://www.therecycler.com/posts/hp-launches-new-instant-ink-programme/ https://www.therecycler.com/posts/hp-launches-new-instant-in...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/874mi2/question_ads_in_hp_instant_ink_free_plan/ https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/874mi2/question_a...
- bserge 6y agoInteresting, I've only heard about it ~3 years ago when I got a cheap (and reliable, fwiw) Envy AIO, but it was not free.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoThank you! I couldn't get an exact date, and made a hasty assumption because I couldn't find any stories about the program that predated January 2020. (But I didn't search for too long.) It doesn't look like the "free" plan was available all the way back in 2013 though—it's not mentioned in your first link, and they presumably would have brought up something like that. And more importantly, they were clearly still using this plan to sell new printers as recently as this past winter...