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Issue #0722/3 - In advance of its second quarter earnings announcement, scheduled for 24th July, Lexmark has released a revised financial outlook for the quarter, presenting bad news.

Lexmark International has revised its second quarter financial expectations – downwards – by about 25%, blaming lower than expected operating income from the consumer segment (inkjet printers and AiOs). Apparently, consumers are not buying Lexmark’s inkjet supplies!

Issue #0718/1/ - With the big three US printer manufacturers having recently reported quarterly financial information, we see Lexmark in a tough position, being gradually edged out. Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard is totally dominant in the market and Xerox is pushing ahead hard.

Issue #0704/2 - Even though Lexmark is set to lose a portion of its OEM business as IBM gets into bed with Ricoh and is still losing money, the financials are better (but not great) and the company is able to make small reductions to supplies prices.

Issue #0634/1 - Can Xerox be serious? New Phaser 6110 is allegedly “the affordable replacement to business inkjets”, yet Konica Minolta’s new magicolor 2500W costs 38% less to run even though it costs 2.6% more to buy.

Issue #0633/1 - Colour laser printers from three manufacturers join the market line-up. Both purchase costs and running costs vary significantly as do specifications.

Six models of colour laser printer from three manufacturers have hit the market in the past couple of weeks.