@admin To be fair my parents have an HP all-in-one printer/scanner/copy with instant ink subscription, they bought it for like 50€ in early 2016 and it's still working fine.
Before that they used HP printers without subscription and they broke in a couple months.
And this is sensible to some extent, when the ink cartridge inevitably dies it's HP's money not yours.
Stupid "I want to print color and pictures" mentality, not much I can do, they're not going to take laser printers.