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Another surprise is that if you want to use the printer over USB you have to purchase that cable *separately*. If you purchase online is very easy to fall for t
by liendolucas 4y ago
Another surprise is that if you want to use the printer over USB you have to purchase that cable *separately*. If you purchase online is very easy to fall for this one as people won't check for this, this happened to me around ~2 years ago with one of these low end pieces of crap.
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoHonestly, I prefer this, it seems to save millions of excess cables being sent to landfill ... a good company would allow you to order one free with the printer, or have a coupon in the box to get one for postage.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoIt's done to offer the office supply shops a bonus by giving them the extra sale of their ridiculously overpriced USB cables. They make more profit on those than on the printer itself as they're just cheap Chinese $1 cables. Another scam in this totally broken market.
- ethbr0 4y agoIs it a custom cable? Every one I've ever seen (in the USB era) is a standard Type B cable. https://www.newnex.com/usb-connector-type-guide.php https://www.newnex.com/usb-connector-type-guide.php
- account42 4y agoI never understood the reason for separate Type B connectors when the standard A, micro or now C-type connectors would work just as well and allow people to use the millions of cables of those they already have.
- detaro 4y agoPre-USB-C: USB A is host, USB B is device - be it normal-size-B or micro-size-B. Those should be the most common cables. (I'm not sure I'd have any standard-A-to-A?)