Manufacturer logic
Can anybody tell me why printer manufacturers assume that just because you’re buying a USB printer, you automatically have a bunch of USB connectors lying around at home?
If you buy any other USB peripheral, they come with connector cables (even, somewhat superfluously, most flash disks), but printers? No way, Bob. You gotta supply your own.
Which meant digging through a bunch of unpacked (yes, I know I’ve been here a year now) boxes looking for my old USB modem, which thankfully I found.
…And then there’s the matter of sample paper. It’s a bit awkward going through the whole setup sequence (which is remarkably complicated for printers these days) only to have the thing flash its feeble LCD at you telling you to put in some paper to do the head alignment, and then you realise there’s not a scrap of decent A4 paper anywhere in the house.