Ah, interesting. I guess they were manufacturing the bigger corporate machines, and rebranding this medium/small sized printers. They also had solid ink printers (we had one in the office a long time ago) but I think they aren't doing them anymore.
I bought past year a bunch of Xerox branded toners for an HP printer, and I didn't know they had diversified the business that much. I wonder if they manufacture them.
Xerox still manufactures a lot of toner. It’s where all the money is in the market. They have a massive plant making EA toner and then a packing plant next door in Webster, NY USA at the main campus.
Intersting, I didn't realize there's a relationship.
But Wikipedia says:
> Lexmark was formed on March 27, 1991, when investment firm Clayton & Dubilier completed a leveraged buyout of IBM Information Products Corporation, the printer, typewriter, and keyboard operations of IBM
Lexmark being IBM’s former printer division is well known. Former employees purchased the keyboard business from Lexmark and made Unicomp.
Meanwhile, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was IBM’s hard drive division and Lenovo was their PC division. IBM has sold off so many parts of itself over the years it is surprising there is much left.
Yep, I still have a couple or three Model M keyboards, and although all are IBM branded, if you disassemble them you'll find that, depending on the year, they were IBM or Lexmark manufactured.
Also, IBM laser printers from the 4019, 4029, 4039... series started to appear branded as Lexmark. At least if I remember correctly from when my father worked at a bank. Our equipment at home was a less fancy IBM Proprinter XL24. Noisy!
This was the pre-Gerstner era of the “Baby Blues”: Lexmark, AdStar, Pennant, Eduquest, Advantis/ISSC, and some others I’ve forgotten. In the end IBM spun off Lexmark, Federal Systems (to Loral), AdStar never spun out but was the division sold to Hitachi. Lexmark was “small” printers and keyboards, Pennant was the room sized beasts. Advantis became IBM Global Network, sold to AT&T in 2000.
I haven't followed Xerox in the last - 20? years, so I don't know how terrible could this be.