computer science

Lexmark

Lexmark is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lexmark rather than just read about it. In short: Lexmark International, Inc. is an American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products. Founded in 1991, it is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky.

Key takeaways

Lexmark belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lexmark to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lexmark from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lexmark International, Inc. is an American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products. Founded in 1991, it is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. From 2016 to 2025, the firm was controlled for nine years by a consortium formed by three multinational companies: Ninestar (formerly Apex Technology), PAG Asia Capital, and Legend Capital. On July 1, 2025, it was acquired in full by Xerox for US$1.5 billion.

History Lexmark was formed on March 27, 1991, when investment firm Clayton & Dubilier completed a leveraged buyout of IBM Information Products, the printer, typewriter, and keyboard operations of IBM. On November 15, 1995, Lexmark became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. By 2016, the firm struggled to keep corporate clients that are cutting costs and the consumers who are shifting to mobile devices from personal computers. In April 2016, it was reported that Lexmark would be taken private by Apex Technology and PAG Asia Capital for US$3.6 billion, in a transaction that valued it at $40.50 per share. The first purchase discussions began at the Remax World Expo in 2015. After closing the deal in November, the firm stated that it would maintain its headquarters in Lexington, and that its enterprise software line of business would be spun off and "rebranded" to Kofax. As part of the sale, the Perceptive business unit of Lexmark's Enterprise Software Services division was sold to the private equity firm Thoma Bravo (excluding non-Kofax branded document management products). In addition to completing the aforementioned transaction, Thoma Bravo also agreed to sell the Perceptive business unit to Hyland Corporation. While Kofax-branded applications remained with Lexmark, other document management systems like Perceptive Content and NolijWeb and products like Intelligent Capture (formerly "Brainware") and Enterprise Search (formerly "ISYS") were absorbed by Hyland. On December 23, 2024, the firm announced that Xerox would acquire it, in a deal expected to close in the second half of the following year. After the acquisition was completed in July 2025, Xerox COO John Bruno said that his company would continue to use the Lexmark name for an "undetermined amount of time" but ultimately plans to discontinue it, merging its product lines with Xerox's own.

Operations The firm has its corporate headquarters in Lexington, while also having R&D offices distributed globally and R&D facilities located in Longmont, Colorado, US; Lenexa, Kansas, US; Cebu, Philippines; Kolkata, India; Berlin, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden and Irvine, California, US. With over 13,000 employees worldwide as of November 2025, the company has offices throughout North America and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Acquisitions May 2010: it acquired Perceptive Software for $280 million to build upon its software offerings. PS was a software firm that developed enterprise content management ("Perceptive Content", ″ImageNow") and document output management applications. 2011: Based in the Netherlands, Pallas Athena was acquired in a transaction valued at approximately US$50.2 million, adding business process management software, document output management, and process mining capabilities to Lexmark's services. March 2012: Acquisition of Luxembourg-based BDGB Enterprise, including its subsidiary Brainware, for US$148 million. Brainware's intelligent data capture platform extracted critical information from paper and electronic documents, validated the extracted data, and passed it on to clients' data management systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and/or financial management systems. March 2012: it acquired Australia-based ISYS Search Software and U.S.-based Nolij Corporation, both for $32 million. ISYS built enterprise search solutions and Nolij developed Web-based document imaging and workflow software. January 2013: acquisition of Acuo Technologies, a Minnesota-based developer of medical imaging document management software, for $45 million. March 2013: acquisition of AccessVia and Twistage for approximately $31.5 million. August 2013: agreement signed to acquire Saperion AG, a German developer and provider of enterprise content management and business process management (BPM) software in Europe, for $72 million. October 2013: acquisition of PACSGEAR for approximately $54 million. September 2014: acquisition of ReadSoft, a Stockholm-based provider of applications for automating business processes, for $251 million. May 2015: it announced the $1 billion acquisition of Kofax, an Irvine, California-based provider of smart process applications. They combined capture, process management, analytics and mobile capabilities to organizations. This line of business was, in turn, spun off from Lexmark when it was acquired by Apex Technology in November 2016.

Divestitures

1996: keyboard factory In 1996, Lexmark International was prepared to shut their Lexington keyboard factory where they produced Model M buckling-spring keyboards. Despite being the original designer, patent holder, and main customer, IBM decided to remove the Model M from its product line in favor of cheaper Asian-made rubber-dome keyboards. In an attempt to prevent its production from ceasing, a group of former IBM and Lexmark employees acquired the factory located in Lexington. In April of that year, the business was re-established as Unicomp, making its own modernized versions of the Model M keyboards.

2012-13: inkjet printer line In August 2012, Lexmark announced that it would stop production of its inkjet printer line. In April 2013, Funai Electric Company, Ltd. announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Lexmark's inkjet technology and assets for approximately $100 million (approximately ¥9.5 billion). Funai acquired more than 1,500 inkjet patents, Lexmark's inkjet-related research and development assets and tools, all outstanding shares and the manufacturing facility of Lexmark International (Philippines), Inc., and other inkjet-related technologies and assets.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lexmark

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lexmark claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lexmark before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lexmark ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lexmark

In research: Lexmark appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lexmark in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lexmark is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1991 establishments in Kentucky, 1995 initial public offerings, 2016 mergers and acquisitions, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lexmark outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lexmark in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Lexmark means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Lexmark out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Lexmark in simple terms?

Lexmark International, Inc. is an American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products. Founded in 1991, it is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky.

Why does Lexmark matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lexmark?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lexmark.