I bought an HP printer last year. Now they have this "instant ink" thing, where you have special ink cartridges that phone home so they know how many pages you print and when you're low. You pay a monthly fee and they send you more ink when you start to run low.
It sounds awful to me, but they gave me 6 months free with like 700 pages a month included in that. Why the heck not?
When that ran out I went on the 10-page per month plan for $1 a month. Since I don't print much, that seemed ok.
