When my printer runs out of ink I take it to recycling at the city dump
LOL. HP and Gillete have the same marketing philosophy: sell the razors (printers) at cost or less, then make a pot of money selling the blades (ink). Just try to buy a fairly small replacement part for a HP printer; you’ll find it costs almost as much as the whole printer did.
When carts cost more than the printer that is more solution. After years of buying 20.00 type inkjet and reinking carts using bulk ink (messy, color often not successful), but seeing remanufactured carts go up and up, yet still saving a lot of 4, thank God, i finally looked for inkjet carts with a much larger capacity, and found the HP OfficeJet Pro 8100 Wireless Photo Printer with Mobile Printing (CM752A) to be the cheapest that took the largest size carts (53ml for 950black XL; 17ml for each 941XL color) and which were very cheap for size.
Bought the printer used (Amazon) for 55.00 (had a paper jam in it, but works as new), and 11.93 for a 5-PK of 950XL 951 XL. Prints very well and duplex (both sides) and with carts so cheap you need not refill, though i likely will.