When HP announced its subscription plan, it sounded like a great promotion: free ink for life, 15 pages’ worth a month. CONSUMER REPORTS: HP ends ‘free ink for life’ subscription planNo matter how you get ink, Consumer Reports offers some clever tips to help you save money on it. But if you’re not ready to buy a new printer, CR has some more creative ways to save on the one you have. A simple yet effective way to save ink is to change your font to Times New Roman instead of Arial. CR testers got 27 percent more mileage using it.