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Of course they disable the cartridge. You're paying for ink on a subscription. If you didn't pay for cart in full, why should you be able to use the rest of it? That's literally what you signed up for. Otherwise everyone would get a full cartridge for $1.
If you don't want to do ink-cart-layaway, don't sign up and buy the cartridge.
Disabling mid-month is a scam though.
Me: writes whole reply about why mid month canceling is a scam, and then realizing I didn't read your last line and writing this instead.
They could have made this subscription far easier and fairer if they wanted to. A service that simply buys a new cartridge once your existing one reaches a threshold (say 20% left) would be simple to implement, simple to understand and even be quite useful. Instead this Instant Ink thing is an abomination of multiple tiers and price gouging.