Reply to "Canon to Acquire Lexmark?"

Art Post (Guest)

It's all about the consumables, if Canon got the right deal it would be a no brainer for them. They would just phase out the lexmark engines and replace them with thier own, similar to a manufacturer buying a dealer then dumping the existing line an replacing with thier own.

There are roughly 13 players in the "toner/ink on paper" business, clicks seem to be migrating downward with MFP's and Printers (You may have the numbers on that, I'm giving it a good guess). I'm thinking there's another round of consolidation ahead and it's going to be copier manufacturers by printer manufacturers or vis versa, the other item to consider is that manufactuers may now look to buy major MPS companies to capture additional pages.

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

5/28/1011:53 PM

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