Corporate Background
Flexible Engineering Solutions (FES) was founded in 1997 by John E. LaFleche,
Ph.D. FES has a broad international client base that includes
manufacturers of inkjet, thermal, laser, and xerographic printing systems as
well as manufacturers of paper and paper handling devices.
John E. LaFleche, Ph.D., Director
John E. LaFleche founded FES in 1997. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Rochester. His Ph.D. research
concentrated on thermal and mechanical simulations of digital printing processes
and was supported by Eastman Kodak Company. John has over 15 years of experience
in digital imaging technology. In addition to consulting, he designed and teaches
four custom training courses: Paper Handling, Thermal Printing, Design of
Experiments for Printers, and Fuser Technology Review. John is an expert in inkjet, thermal, and laser printing.
He has trained over one thousand engineers at the best printing companies in the
world, including Hewlett Packard, Xerox, and Lexmark.