It's a mistake to buy printers from any company who engage in such practices - switch from HP to Brother or Kyocera if you can. It's not just ink: they want to

It's a mistake to buy printers from any company who engage in such practices - switch from HP to Brother or Kyocera if you can. It's not just ink: they want to force you to use particular paper also, not sure if there are any micro-signs on printer paper to identify vendors or firmware code to check for it, but I wouldn't be surprised.