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Our Team
Douglas R. Smith
Mr. Smith has over forty years of experience in the high tech
industry including several management positions at Eastman Kodak
Company and as President of Merlin International. Mr. Smith’s
background ranges from systems engineering and development of
complex electro optical systems and building and managing electronics
and software development groups for large government systems and
electro-photographic printing and copying. While at Kodak, Mr.
Smith was responsible for technology development and product development,
design, launch and engineering support of electronic and software
front ends for all Kodak printing products including electro-photographic,
inkjet and thermal printing products. His responsibilities included
organizing efforts, product developments for a group of 200 exempts
supporting four major lines business within Kodak. After leaving
Kodak, Mr. Smith co founded and became President of Merlin International,
a high tech, four color, digital printing company serving the
western NY area. The company is a self-funded enterprise undertaking
engineering development activities and commercial printing. Mr. Smith has a BSEE from Union College and completed
graduate work in electronics, electro-optics, systems management,
and software development.
Sandor Hopenwasser
Mr. Hopenwasser has over 15 years experience developing prepress
processes designed for Xeikon based digital printing and has directed
prepress operations at Merlin. His expertise includes four-color
variable data and traditional prepress workflows. He has a Masters
of Science Degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in Electronic
Publishing and a BS in Photography from the same institution.
Stephen H. Fox
Mr. Fox has 13 years of experience preparing and printing jobs
on the Xeikon digital presses. He is currently responsible for
the entire production process at Merlin International. His dedication
to on-schedule, high quality output has played a major roll in
the success of the company. His background includes a BA in mathematics
from LeMoyne College and experience as a technical assistant in
a digital image-processing group at Xerox Corporation.
The Team
Merlin International currently employs 14 employees specialized
to providing you with the best service available in the industry.
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