I only bought the HP cartiridges because HP will not allow most of their printers to works with non-HP cartiridges. So I paid $404 for a cartridge set when the $136 set I bought wouldn't run. No warnings in the HP marketing materials for my printer, or in the instructions included with it.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We bought our HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw a few years ago and it’s been running on the original toner cartridges until a few weeks ago. When we got the alarm for low toner in the print driver, I was dreading finding the right cartridges, installing them correctly without a big mess...turned out to be a piece of cake...good directions and product. Also directions to leave empty cartridges off at a variety of retail stores for recycling or labels to mail them off to HP was a plus. We had used inkjet printers in the past and got tired of ink clogging up and having to replace cartridges often. This printer prints great every.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Recently I bought another brand of ink cartridges. I had problems with those off brand ink cartridges and regretted buying them. Now I only buy HP ink cartridges and am always satisfied. My advice is, don't waste your time with another brand. HP ink cartridges are the best by far!
It was necessary for me to buy these cartridges because HP automatically updated the firmware no my printer rendering my 3rd party cartridges useless (until I swap the chips out which I plan on doing when the HP cartridges run dry). Better yet, the firmware update disabled the wired and wireless networking capability of the printer. While this is a known issue with the update, HP has done nothing to rectify it, let alone provide any troubleshooting assistance. It's taken me about a week to figure out how to get the printer to work again on my own. You can bet that I've disabled the automatic firmware up dates on the printer and that I will never buy another genuine HO product again.