I just bought a new printer

[Lager]

Canon i470D. I hope I made a good choice.

Everything by Canon is decent from my personal experience.

 

[Lager]

Looks like this printer sucks.

 

[iamme]

wow, it only too 9 minutes for your to change your tune...

what's bad about it?

 

[Pshawn5]

why does it suck?
i was thinking about picking one up too. 30 bucks after rebate seem pretty good for a printer deal

 

[Lager]

Too bad I need to spend $20 more to buy a stupid USB cable.

When will they ever include these with the friggin' printers??

 

[Macro2]

Nobody includes a USB cable UNLESS you BUY a CANON at SAMS or COSTCO. Then they throw one in.

If you buy a USB cable at a local store chances are you've been ripped off.
This is a big markup item for the likes of Officemax, depot, Best buy CC etc.
If you have a Sams or costco you can get a couple rather cheaply.

There are plenty of places on the internet that sell them for a couple dollars.

Sorry you found this out after the fact. Maybe you can take it back and find a better deal.

Mac

 

[Peter]

$20 for a USB cable? Where'd you buy that? Pharmacy?

 

[Jeff7]

Buy a USB cable on eBay for less than $5 - they are there.

 

[tooltime]

usb cables seem to stack up around here...i would think you could find one for five or less.

btw i have a i950...really nice pictures...for an inkjet

 

[Tates]

You think it sucks just because it didn't come with a USB cable?

Congratulations, you may be a whiner

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: lager
Too bad I need to spend $20 more to buy a stupid USB cable.

When will they ever include these with the friggin' printers??

Lol @ lager. I just bought a 3 pack of USB cables @ costco for $10. I'm sure you can find one for less than $20!

 

[Slogun]

I was researching a Canon "i" series printer for a friend recently. If you do your research carefully, you will notice that vendors usually make note that "cables are not included."

Yea, you can find them cheap some places. Offhand I know they start at 10 bucks at Micro center.

 

[Peter]

As long as I've been buying and selling printers, and it's been a while, interface cables NEVER were included.

 

[rickon66]

I think lager is too busy posting 27 times a day to know much about printers.

 

[JBT]

hehe I remember when my old HP with a parrallel port died it sucked but I went to the store and picking up a new one with USB only open it and was liek $hit I forgot theses things never came with cables looked online at the big stores and ur right they are like 20 bucks luckily ther are plenty of online stores that are ONLY about cables it seems so I picked one up from them for like 2 bucks... and was a happy camper.