It was an interesting business move for IBM to sell printer manufacturing rights to Lexmark in 1991.
That's interesting. I've used Lexmark printers at work in the past. Have you used IBM or Lexmark products?
I have. I actually used to own a Lexmark printer a few years ago to print out family photos.
That's cool. I have an at home printer for photos as well, but it uses a lot of ink to print out photos.
They do tend to use quite a lot of ink, but this is become of how the ink is used. It is vaporized into a tiny stream of bubbly goo within the cartridge, so some ink may be lost within this process.
Okay that makes sense, so some of the ink is lost through the printing. The quality of the photos does come out well. 
Indeed, whether it is a large professional grade machine, or a home and consumer printer the image will always come out crisp and vibrant.
I love to print photos, it gets harder to do it with the amount of photos I take all the time!