0-For-2 So Far

So we picked up a nice long USB 2.0 cable today at lunch, only to find out tonight that it's a special kind of USB 2.0 cable that's required! Despite there being the standard sized USB 2.0 port at the front of the printer - and hence, we bought a cable that was configured like that at both ends - that's apparently where you would plug in a camera USB cable (for printing photos), not how you connect your PC to the printer! For that latter operation to work, you need one end of the cable to be standard USB 2.0 and the other to be a smaller, square-ish USB format. Nothing about this is indicated in the Instruction Manual, of course. So now we have to return what we bought today and purchase a different model tomorrow or the next day!

All of which would've been avoided if Canon had simply provided all of the parts! It's a damn good thing we don't have any high priority printing lined up that we thought buying a brand new printer would solve in a timely fashion!!