I bought an Epson DX8450 recently and there is no cable supplied to link the printer to the PC. It gave a contents list in the instructions and it is not mentioned on it.
It seems crazy that Epson don't supply you with everyhing you need to get started.
Yep, I bought a canon pixma and it doesn't come with a cable either. The Argos catalogue pointed this out and the girl at the check-out tried to sell me a cable too.