canon i9900: NO cables included, how lame is that?

[antgross@pacbell.net]

Canon, you must be friggin' kidding me? I spent $450 bucks and I can't connect this thing to my computer because you're too cheap to throw in a cable?

[TwoRails]

Cables haven't been included with printers for many years now, as a general rule.

[colecifer]

Yeah i was very displeased as well when i bought a new printer last year. Luckily I had a spare USB cable that came with my cable modem. Sure a usb cable only cost 1-2 dollars but its still annoying. Seeing as how the printer manufacturers could get cables even cheaper then that tere is no reason to not throw in a cable.

[Panama Red]

Every printer I've ever purchased didn't come with a cable. Back when we used the multi-pin Printer Cables, they sold for about $25 to $30 retail. Would have been expensive to include them. When stuff started switching to usb, some computers had usb and some didn't. I have a new Canon Pixma IP3000 printer sitting here with a new customer build and it only has a usb connection. There's a couple possibilities as to why they don't include the cable. One is tradition, never did it before. Two is not knowing how long to make the inlcuded cable. Soon as they did include the usb cable, someone would complain it was too short for where I want my printer. Or it's too long and I end up with all this extra cable laying here looking messy. Whatever the reason, folks will find something to complain about. All the Newegg listings I have seen clearly say "does not include cable".

[glc]

The only printers I have *ever* seen that came with a cable were the HP's that used the proprietary mini parallel connector on the printer.