Not entirely surprising. I have a Lexmark Printer/Scanner. Good product but so expensive to run. No compatible inks available, only refilled cartridges. Very heavy on ink. Been gathering dust for several years now.

Lexmark was once part of IBM, and was sold off in 1991 as part of IBM's drive to maintain its core business at a time when smaller computer manufacturers were nibbling away at its market share.

Lexmark was then headed up by an ex-IBM Vice president, and he set about making the new company profitable with a vengeance. By the end of 1995 Lexmark had a turnover of over 2 billion dollars - almost all of it from the printer market.

Times change,and businesses must change too, or die. Sales of inkjet printers are declining as people increasingly post images to social media sites rather than printing them. Likewise, when it comes to written communications email is the method of choice now, rather than printed letters.

Perhaps a late addition to this post, but I wonder if this will effect Dell, because at one time, Dell used re-badged Lexmark as one of their own named products.

In the main the only difference was the print cartridges, that had a slight modification between the Lexmark and Dell compatibility. if you knew the modification, then obtaining replacements were not to much of a problem.

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It does look to me that Dell are still selling rebadged Lexmark printers, so they'll need to find a new printer partner, they've got a couple of years before Lexmark completely shut down the inkjet division...