It’s 50 pages per month. The cartridges they get are probably the 150 or 200 per page ones. In other word they’re paying a monthly fee to get a max of 3 or 4 cartridges a year. Probably less.

I’ve grown to hate the modern ink jet printers with a passion. I moved on to the consumer laser printers. I’m sure I’ll hate them too soon enough.

What does the syringe refill cost? I also have the instant ink service and I want out

Ink seems to be virtually free at Monoprice. Like, "It costs more to ship this than the ink, so I guess I'll just buy 10 of each color, but now I have a drawer full of ink cartridges and need to find more things to print."

I refill it from the bottle. The bottle costed me under a fiver some years ago.