Lexmark Earnings Could Offer Insight Into Inkjet Sale

During their quarterly earnings announcement Tuesday, Lexmark International executives might make their first public comments on how efforts are going to sell the company's inkjet printer operations.

The company, based in Lexington, announced in late August that it would shut down its increasingly small inkjet operations. The move came a few years after the company stopped producing inkjet printers aimed at home consumers because the customers weren't printing enough to meet profit expectations. Instead, the company had used the inkjet technology to complement its laser printer lines aimed at businesses.