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so i bough a new printer from best buy like a month back. i never really need to use a printer so i just let it sit in my room without opening it until i needed it for some work papers. i open it up, pull all the packing out and there is only the power cord, printer, and a install pamphlet... im thinking wtf is going on how is this going to sync up to my computer....and it was supposed to come with ink. the ink no problem i still have some old ones that would fit. i figured that i would have a spare usb cable... the printer has a specially designed plug in so that you have to buy their product. i look at the fucking pamphlet and in fine print in the first shitty English/Spanish/Gibberish(no really its not Asian, Russian, or french) cartoon usb cable may or may not be included....you have got to be fucking joking now in addition to buying the over priced piece of shit i have to get a cord that should be included and i can't get the paper work from work when i need it.
 
actually that is normal. most printers require you purchase a printer/USB cable as well. And yes the cable is not your normal USB style cable. It has one large squarish end and the other end is your traditional USB.

Although it should of come with at least one ink cartridge.

either or you get what you pay for. Every lexmark printer I ever bought stopped working in 6 months or less..
 
While this is accurate, the OP seems to be saying it uses a proprietary cable. I don't know what kind of spare USB cable he would expect to have lying around, if not the type you are describing. In any case, I've never seen a printer that used any kind of USB cable other than the standard cable you're describing, so maybe the OP just doesn't know what he's talking about.

I don't find this surprising in the least. I haven't seen many printers that came with a USB cable included.
 
That's cuz it's a cheap machine made for personal use.

Lexmark makes some high usage machines that are expensive, but work quite well. But yeah, they're an expensive business oriented machine.
 
lexmark doesnt use proprietary cables.. they use A/B cables.. this person just never seen an A/B cable before and assumed it was proprietary..
 
I can do you one better:

I bought a $140 stereo at Best Buy. After I had already opened the box (which was in a security thingy at the store, but not taped shut) and even stripped some wires, and about had it installed...

then I noticed the wrong stereo somehow got into their SECURITY DEVICE-SEALED BOX (right brand, wrong model, looked kinda similar is why I didn't notice right away). So I took it back, where I waited for a supervisor.

Supervisor told me I might have to contact Kenwood. We all know full well this would mean me sending in the stereo--and they'd probably see my stripped wires and insist that I was trying to pull a fast one.

The supervisor looks at it a while, calls someone else...they look at it a while. Finally they decide to be nice (i.e., do their job and take responsibility for their misplaced products) and switch it out for the right thing...and the one I meant to get is a more expensive upgrade of the one I got. Basically what should have been a 20-minute or so installation took the better part of a day.

Anywho, I offer this as compensation for my threadjack:

For only $1.38 each when QTY 50+ purchased - USB 2.0 A Male to B Male 28/24AWG Cable - 15FT (CLEAR/SILVER) | USB 2.0 Cable - Regular Type
 
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