Dell printers are also rebadged Lexmark’s. Or at least they were 20 years ago.

Yeah, both Xerox and Lexmark are such blasts from the past for me. Surprised they still exist in any form.

I saw an ad for Packard Bell on Instagram yesterday. I looked it up quickly, apparently they've been selling computers this whole time, owned by different parent companies though.

Wow, I've always thought that company merged into half of Hewlett-Packard. I'm very surprised to learn just now, after all these years, that they're completely separate.

What a trip. I remember playing with them in stores as a kid.

Yeah, this article was a bit of a surprise to me. I would have assumed Xerox at least had been out of business for ages.

I'm surprised that anyone prints anything any more. Such a waste of paper, toner and ink (the most expensive liquids on earth).

I haven't used an inkjet for years but it's useful to print a few pages here and there on a laser printer for reference.

Tritium begs to differ.

Nope, at least some of them are built in collaboration with Samsung. I remember using the same Samsung 1710 drivers to drive similar looking Xerox models. Information pages and everything are similar too. Only the logos differ.

It's also same for Samsung MD2825 series. Xerox builds the exact same network enabled printers, but also they add WiFi on top of it. They're very reliable too. I have one and it's working without any problems for a decade.

OTOH, Xerox's high end printers and "digital presses" are a different beast altogether.

I think Samsung sold it printer business to HP a few years ago. If you search for a driver you will most probably find a page on HP website.

Yes, they sold it to HP. The latest toners I got for my MD2825 have HP hologram stickers on them.

However, both MD282x series, and ML1710 are designed and produced way before the transfer. I remember seeing the Xerox printers first, thinking "Sweet", then finding the same device with a different color scheme, only under Samsung brand, and just buying it, because an extra Ethernet cable was not a problem at that time (Plus Xerox's one was unobtanium).

For the ML1710, I remember seeing the Xerox one at the university, taking an "info" page from it and saying "this looks similar to my 1710, what happens if I just use with 1710 driver?", and I was printing 35 seconds later.

Now my parents are using the 2825, and I have enough spares to let them use it for another decade at their usage volume.

For the driver thing, it's good that the 2825 supports both AirPrint and Google Cloud Print (while it lasted), and is just an IPP printer with an open PPD file. So it can be used with toaster or a server or a phone, as long as it talks AirPrint or IPP.

If you disassemble their C series printers, you should find Lexmark parts. Even the plastic enclosures are the same shape as Lexmark printers.

Interesting, so, maybe they started to work with Lexmark after Samsung went to HP? Because The 2825 had an "exact" copy in the Xerox lineup, sans the color scheme and wireless capabilities.

Or maybe they were working with different manufacturers for different series for a long time. IDK.