What do you expect to happen when you sign up for the subscription ink? If you don't pay for your subscription, the ink stops working. AFAIK, the printers compatible with subscription ink also work fine with regular ink. I will say, the UX is pretty poor when the subscription ends because the card can't be charged and the user doesn't read their email to know, and it's one of the printers that only has a non very obvious symbol to indicate the problem, and that symbol isn't shown in the manual, and someone (me) is helping them over the phone and only barely knew about the setup.
And inkjets are such a PITA for low volume printing. I wish dotmatrix printers would come back. The output quality is poor, they're loud, the paper is iffy, but ink ribbons last a pretty good amount of time for low volumes, and there's near zero warm up time; and you can print banners!
And inkjets are such a PITA for low volume printing. I wish dotmatrix printers would come back. The output quality is poor, they're loud, the paper is iffy, but ink ribbons last a pretty good amount of time for low volumes, and there's near zero warm up time; and you can print banners!