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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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