Stash, I went by the DPS HQ on Lamar in Austin . . . the CHL building is in the back, and parking is terrible, because almost all spots in the very large parking lot are "reserved."
I don't know anything about a "DPS CHL place" by the airport.
First time, the nice ladies used ink on a stone slab to take my prints . . . by the time I renewed, they had gone "electronic" and I rolled my finger across a glass platen while a camera imaged it; the digital image was then printed on a fingerprint card.
I've heard that sometimes if you write "best available print" across the top of the fingerprint card, they may accept it.
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- Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:43 pm
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Prints Rejected
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- Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:14 am
- Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
- Topic: Prints Rejected
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For both my original application and my renewal, my prints were bad. 
(Different LEO each time.)
Fortunately, I live in the Austin area, so since I was dropping my packet off at DPS HQ in person anyway, I had them look over, and ultimately redo, my prints each time. (Apparently this is common.)
DPS personnel were courteous, efficicent . . . and charged $10.
The difficulty of getting good prints with a co-operative subject using a regular fingerprint kit will make me VERY skeptical of fingerprint evidence lifted from a crime scene should I ever serve on a jury where that's a factor . . .
(Different LEO each time.) Fortunately, I live in the Austin area, so since I was dropping my packet off at DPS HQ in person anyway, I had them look over, and ultimately redo, my prints each time. (Apparently this is common.)
DPS personnel were courteous, efficicent . . . and charged $10.
The difficulty of getting good prints with a co-operative subject using a regular fingerprint kit will make me VERY skeptical of fingerprint evidence lifted from a crime scene should I ever serve on a jury where that's a factor . . .