Printer Cables

Question - for a basic home computer user who typically uses inexpensive
printers, does it matter what type of cable is used? I buy them online for
$2 or $3, and don't have any apparant problem with them, and yet I see them
in the stores, in their gold plated splendor, looking like some kind of
space age wonder cable for what seem to me to be ridiculous prices.

Do these $20 to $35 cables have any value over the cheapies I can get
online?

Thanks,

Jack

You'd be surprised...one of the handiest printer cables I've ever purchased
I got for 69 cents at Fry's...it is one of the few generic cables I've ever
gotten with all the wires connected (normally you have to pay extra for an
IEEE-1284 cable to get that but newer, bi-directional printers require
them).

George

"Jack Bruss" <jbruss.RemoveThis@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
news:CA07c.82325$LD5.48780@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
 > Question - for a basic home computer user who typically uses inexpensive
 > printers, does it matter what type of cable is used? I buy them online for
 > $2 or $3, and don't have any apparant problem with them, and yet I see
them
 > in the stores, in their gold plated splendor, looking like some kind of
 > space age wonder cable for what seem to me to be ridiculous prices.
 >
 > Do these $20 to $35 cables have any value over the cheapies I can get
 > online?
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Jack
 >
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