Don’t Take HP’s Free Ink, Unless You Are OK Never Being Able To Use Anything Else

HP Plus Comes With Huge Catch

If you purchase some HP printers, you are offered a limited time chance to get six months of free ink, a better warranty and even get a tree planted in your name.  You have to sign up for HP Plus with seven days of plugging in your printer, and HP will happily remind you of this deadline constantly, until you sign up or your time expires.  If you do sign up for it, you do indeed get free ink for six months but you also agree to a firmware update in the fine print.  Once a member of HP Plus, your printer will never accept any ink which isn’t directly from…