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Very true, and in addition, most desktop USB printers (like sub-$200 printers from hp, LexMark, etc.) are pretty much plug-and-play, with no settings to configure at all.
My last 3 hp printers were exactly that: plug them in, turn them on, Mac OS X recognizes them right off-the-bat, and my first print job is strictly a "press print and watch it come out" experience.
Of course, with printers that have more advanced features, one would expect to have to adjust more settings... remember when TVs only had vertical- and horizontal-adjustment features? Now we control the aspect ratio, color balance, brightness, contrast, black level, mode, size, zoom, etc... all because we have more fully-featured TVs. In my opinion, it's the same with printers -- the more features it has, the more time it takes to configure a print job if it's a print job that uses those advanced features.
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