Not sure exactly where to post this so feel free to move it if its in the wrong section.

I brought a printer from Warehouse Stationary a couple of nights ago on impulse for school (originally there just to buy an A4 visual dairy) and it sat in its box for a couple of days until I was bothered to set it up. Unpack everything and I felt something was missing. Ink was in. Power on. No usb...

Firstly I thought it was missing so I searched the flat looking for this damn thing, no avail. I never remembered seeing one in the box at all. So I looked on the exterior on the box for the contents, didn't say anything about a USB cable, then I spotted "Non USB..." in the corner of my eye (don't know why I spotted the French version first but that means No USB if you didn't figure it out already). Called Canon and asked why a desktop printer with no wireless functionality or direct USB input lacks the key cable which enables the printer to complete its primary task of printing from a computer. Apparently its standard for printers to not come with cables to connect to PC's, and has been so for the last 3 or so years. Very very annoying ><

Why did they suddenly do that? Did they just assume people would only use it as a photocopier? Because you can't scan or print anything without a USB cable so its sort of useless until you buy this cable. That's like selling an iPod without a USB cable, it still works, but its not usable for its primary purpose.