No cable with printer

Are printers manufacturers skinflints?

It seems they prefer to force the customers to buy an USB cable separately, rather than to give one in the box, which would cost them nearly $0,01 (lower cable price on Amazon).

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It's only a little word of distress because I'm in front of my brand new printer-scanner, and I can't connect it. It's Saturday afternoon, must I go in the shops? Wait Monday without using my printer?

Moreover in my region, there are only short cables close to 10€ (nearly 1/4 of the printer price!). No 3 or 5m cable... I'm forced to buy it on-line again!

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It's a Canon Pixma MP220, but I've read other brands don't put an USB cable too. I can say onlly one thing: why the fuck are they doing this?

This article was posted by David
the Saturday 10 January 2009 at 16:11
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