Curlander warned that revenue and earnings for the fourth-quarter would suffer due to "a major product transition in the corporate market, production contraints constraints in the consumer market, and adverse currency movements," which will also be complicated by "Y2K uncertainties." Curlander added that earnings results will be in the lower half of the 66 to 80 cents a share for the upcoming fourth quarter. He added that he sees Lexmark achieving its long term earnings per share growth goal of 20 percent in 2000, when the company's product transition and capacity issues are behind it. Lexmark repurchased 410,000 shares of its common stock in the quarter for $25 million, resulting in remaining share repurchase authorization of $248 million at the end of the quarter.