I recently decided to buy a new HP printer because my beloved 12-year-old HP8600 Plus is now old enough that the company no longer supports it. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to make a directly comparable OfficeJet in my price range at present, so I decided to try the HP9125e, as the steep price discount offered on the day I bought it helped to make up for the lack of some features I wanted. This is just my first impression of the printer, as it will take a while for me to get used to the differences, and only time will tell how reliable it is. I will attempt to update my review later when I'm more familiar with its performance. But, overall, I’m sad to say that I wish I’d bought something else.As everyone who’s ever owned a printer knows, it’s not the cost of the printer itself that matters most, it’s the ongoing cost of the replacement ink. Unlike every previous HP printer I’ve owned, the 9125e only takes OEM cartridges. It won’t work at all if you put in a non-OEM cartridge! I don’t see that mentioned in the printer specs on Amazon, and I would have bought something else if I’d realized. I rarely buy OEM cartridges because they’re so exorbitantly expensive. Now, to stay within my budget, I’ll have to start shopping around for a good deal on secondhand OEMs and someplace local to refill them. My bad for not remembering to research the ink, too, but I’m still not happy about the expensive surprise.This seems to be to help railroad buyers to subscribe to the Instant Ink service. If I understand the terms correctly, the included starter ink cartridges won’t even work unless you subscribe. (For that reason, I did not use them, so I can’t confirm it.) If you do subscribe, they will stop working anyway if you’re not connected to the internet! In fact, the printer doesn’t even have a port to connect directly to your computer, so no way to print without the internet that I can find. This makes both the printer and the service poor choices for someone like myself who has frequent outages. The free 3-month trial also seems pretty worthless now that I realize in hindsight that I won’t actually use enough ink in 90 days to be sent any replacements. My other issue with the service is that there's no way to plan ahead for a big print job because they send ink based on what you used 3 weeks ago, not what's happening now, and suddenly doing an uncharacteristically big job (if you somehow have enough ink on hand to make that happen) will get you fined a bundle for going over your subscription plan amount. Not a fan of the Instant Ink Service at all. Instead, I got some non-subscription cartridges, but I still had to fight with the printer to get it to accept them, even though they were new OEMs.As I mentioned, the 9125e is a step down for me, as it lacks features my older HP OfficeJet printer had. For example, it doesn't have any SD ports. The touch display is ridiculously tiny; almost half the size of my old one (2.7" down from 4.3"), making it much harder for me to read and use. The paper output tray only accommodates 60 pages when I'm used to 150! Yet, both printers have the same 250-page input tray and are rated for up to 25,000 pages per month, so why put such a low-capacity output tray on the 9125e? It says it has a USB 2.0 port, but it's covered with a sticker and doesn't seem to work, making wifi the only way to connect. The in general also feels a lot more flimsy than older HP printers, especially the paper tray, and it's so loud I thought it was broken the first time I tried printing. And unless I'm missing something, it seems you can't scan without the app, which I hadn't planned to use very much but now seem to be tied to.While I have lost some features with this move, I'm happy to say both the memory and processing speed are far better than my old printer. The memory is 512 MB, which is a nice step up from my old printer's 128 MB. The 1.2 GHz processing is a huge step up from the clunky old 360 MHZ. It's also about 7 pounds lighter with a slightly smaller footprint, which made maneuvering it into position on top of my 5' file cabinet easier. As for the print quality, it's rated as being "laser comparable." I've never owned a laser printer to compare, but my old printer was rated the same, and the print quality appears to be fairly similar.So while the 9125e works well enough as a printer, its multiple shortcomings have dampened my initial enthusiasm. I wanted a well-built, sturdy printer that connects to my devices and prints the things I ask when I need them, not a flimsy, noisy printer that only works when the net is up, with an attached service that fines me through the nose for daring to use the printer I've paid for only when I need it. I own the printer, and I should be able to connect it directly to my computer and use it without HP sticking their noses into everything I print and dictating what Ink I use. I agree they should have the right to refuse warranty coverage if I've used a non-OEM cartridge, but there is no good reason to lock me out of using a printer I've fully paid for just because I want to use other brands of ink outside of the warranty or when my internet is down.