Lexmark Inks Deal With State Government in New York

Date: July 22, 2010

New York, NY -- Lexmark announced via a press release on their corporate site on Wednesday July 21st that they have received a one-year Aggregate Printer Purchase Initiative for their printers and MFPs from New York State’s Office of General Services (OGS). Lexmark proposed printers for each of ten categories and was rated first overall in nine of those. Additionally, Lexmark was the only one of the companies vying for this that had a printer selected from each of the ten categories. In addition, Lexmark is providing a three-year warranty on all of the products purchased in case the OGS wishes to negotiate for additional time at the end of the first year.

Here is a list of the printers that were selected by OGS for use (taken directly from Lexmark’s release):

• Workgroup black/white (low end, 20 pages per minute (ppm)) - Lexmark E460dn
• Workgroup black/white (midrange, 30 ppm) - Lexmark T650dn
• Workgroup black/white (high end, 45 ppm) - Lexmark T654dn
• Workgroup color (low end, 20 ppm) - Lexmark C544dn
• Workgroup color (high end, 30 ppm) - Lexmark C736dn
• Workgroup multifunction color (low end, 20 ppm) - Lexmark X544dn
• Workgroup multifunction color (high end, 30 ppm) - Lexmark X738de
• Workgroup multifunction black/white (low end, 27 ppm) - Lexmark X464de
• Workgroup multifunction black/white (high end, 45 ppm) - Lexmark X654de

Lexmark’s president of the Printing Solutions and Services Division, Marty Canning, had this to say about the deal, “This Aggregate Printer Purchase Initiative award demonstrates the competitive strength, breadth, depth and overall value of Lexmark's printer and MFP product lines.” Lexmark certainly seems to have everything going for them. It will be interesting to see where they can expand to next.

BY ADAM HAIGH, Editor