Amazon Printer Ink Price October 2026: HP Cartridges Badge 0% Off

We read Amazon's printer ink cartridge results on 22 October 2026. Eleven listings came back — nine made by the printer manufacturer, two by somebody else. Four of the nine show a 0% discount badge, and in every one of those four cases the stated MRP is exactly one rupee above the price charged.

The two listings not made by HP or Canon are badged 67% and 76%. The entire discount column on this shelf belongs to them.

The four zero-badge listings are the ones worth looking at twice. An HP 678 two-pack sells for Rs. 2,061 against a stated Rs. 2,062. An HP 682 combo sells for Rs. 2,027 against Rs. 2,028. An HP 46 for Rs. 1,077 against Rs. 1,078. An HP 805 for Rs. 828 against Rs. 829. Four listings, four one-rupee gaps. A gap that small rounds to zero per cent, so the badge reads 0% and the listing displays no saving.

This is a pricing convention, not a trick. A manufacturer selling its own consumable at its own stated price is the most ordinary thing on a shelf, and ink behaves this way in physical shops too. What is useful is simply knowing it: on this evidence, waiting for an HP cartridge to go on offer is not a plan, because the strike-through it would have to be discounted from is one rupee away.

Canon discounts, but modestly. Its five cartridges here badge 11% to 24%, a median of 14%, which in rupees is Rs. 96 to Rs. 240. The deepest manufacturer discount in the whole read, the Canon CL57S at Rs. 750 from a stated Rs. 990, saves Rs. 240. The Needle refill ink, badged 76%, nominally saves Rs. 838 — more than three times as much, off a figure three times its own price.

Nine of the eleven listings are manufacturer cartridges and they occupy the top of the price range, Rs. 699 to Rs. 2,061. The two third-party listings occupy the bottom, Rs. 262 to Rs. 399. There is no overlap whatsoever — the dearest third-party listing is Rs. 300 cheaper than the cheapest original.

That gap is the actual decision on this shelf, and the badge column obscures it rather than describing it. A reader sorting by discount sees a 76% badge and a 0% badge and concludes the refill is the bargain. A reader comparing rupees sees Rs. 262 against Rs. 828 and has the same conclusion for a better reason — while also being able to see that these are not the same product, that one is a bottle of ink rather than a cartridge, and that the compatible fits a named list of printer models and nothing else.

The deepest rating pool in this read sits on a listing badged 12%. A Canon PG-47 Black carries 10,063 ratings at 4.2 stars. Behind it: 7,505 ratings on an HP 678 badged 0%, 7,462 on a Canon PG-745s badged 14%, and 6,313 on the ZEBRONICS compatible badged 67%. The thinnest pool, 611, is on the listing with the deepest badge in the read.

All eleven listings published a star average and a rating count. That is not always true — on many shelves we read, a quarter to a third publish neither — and it makes the review column the one column here that can be compared across every listing. It is also the only column on an Amazon card that the seller does not set, which on a consumable you will buy again and again is worth more than a percentage.

None of this is a verdict on print quality. We did not buy, fit or print with any of these cartridges, and page-yield claims, ink volumes and model-compatibility lists on this page are the listings' own, reproduced and not verified by us.

The pull that produced this page ran three queries together: printer ink cartridges, clothes drying stands and laptop stands. Only the eleven cartridge listings are counted in any figure above. But the other 46 rows are worth one paragraph, because they are the same phenomenon at the opposite extreme.

Three of the drying-stand listings print a stated MRP exactly one hundred times their selling price: Rs. 1,449 against a stated Rs. 1,44,900, Rs. 919 against Rs. 91,900, and Rs. 299 against Rs. 29,900. Each generates a 99% badge. An exact factor of a hundred is the signature of a decimal-point error rather than a discount, and we exclude listings like these from any arithmetic we publish.

So one Amazon search returned, on the same afternoon, a strike-through one rupee above the price and a strike-through a hundred times it. Both produce a badge. Neither badge tells you what anything is worth. The rupee price and the rating count do.