OTOH, the same LE commented application prints are often sent back... basically said poor quality prints can usually be classified, but it takes a lot more time and they just don't bother with applicants.
Looking at some to the prints LE types have done on my students I'm amazed any prints get classified.
FWIW
Chuck
HankB wrote:First time I applied for a CHL, my prints were taken by a Pflugerville cop. I hand-carried my packet down to DPS in Austin (one advantage of living in Moscow on the Colorado) and the nice ladies there cooed "Ooooh, these won't do at all" and redid my prints, and 56 days later I got my CHL. (As as aside . . . while they're rolling ink and taking my prints, numerous people walked by and STARED at me. I felt GUILTY . . . I don't know what I did, but for sure, I NEVER want to be in a position where I'm getting printed involuntarily!)
When it came time for renewal, my prints were done by a retired Austin PD sergeant . . . at DPS, same thing, they redid my prints, this time with an electronic scanner. 28 days until my renewal arrived.
So . . . if getting good prints is a hit-or-miss process when trained and certified LEOs are using fingerprint ink and a fingerprint card with a co-operative subject, how in blue blazes do they get validprints from crime scenes? If I'm ever on a jury where fingerprint evidence figures prominently, well, the prosecutor is going to have to be VERY convincing.