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Re: flat usb cable?

Subject: Re: flat usb cable?
From: Meat Plow <meat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:36:38 -0500
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:21:12 -0800, eliza.block wrote:

> Hello, I wonder if anyone knows if a cable exists to solve the
> following problem:
> 
> I have a Canon printer that fits on a shelf with its back to the wall.
> Canon very kindly recessed the jack for the power cord, so that you can
> plug it in and still have the back of the printer flush with the wall.
> However, they were not so kind with the USB input jack, which is only
> very slightly recessed. The effect is that when I plug in the USB cable
> so as to attach the printer to my computer, I have to move the printer
> nearly an inch away from the wall at which point it starts teetering
> off the shelf. I'm sure this is a common problem, and I'm wondering if
> there's a USB cord I could buy with a sort of upside-down L-shaped
> prong to stick in the printer, so it hooks in and then immediately
> bends so the cord is vertical, rather than sticking horizontally into
> the wall. I don't know what to search for on Google to find such an
> item, so if anyone has heard of such a thing, or knows how to improvise
> one, could you please let me know?
> 
> (The end that needs to be bent is the one that sticks into the printer,
> not the computer, so it's the sort of squarish side rather than the
> flat wide side.)
> 
> Thanks very much.
> Eliza

I've never seen of an L-shaped USB connector. Might google it however.


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