On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:48 +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really > silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they > claimed it was because there were different types of parallel > interfaces, even well after DB25 parallel connectors became fully > standardized. I can't believe they're still pulling this ruse when > EVERY computer in the last 4-5 (6-8?) years has USB.
Apparently the reason they get away with this is because these multifunction devices are considered 'standalone' machines. They don't need to be connected to a PC to be useful. Just shop around for the usb cable and chances are you will find one cheaper than the one offered at printer sale time. Cheers, Andrew S -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html