| Fingerprinting isn't just for criminal identification | | | | card. |
| anymore. Depending on where you live, state | | | | On the bottom row, several of your fingers are |
| laws may require you to submit fingerprints for a | | | | placed on the card simultaneously (titled inward at |
| background check before you can even volunteer | | | | a forty-five degree angle) to create "flat" or |
| in the community. Since fingerprinting can be a | | | | "slapped prints." Because these prints are made |
| tricky and highly sensitive process, it is important | | | | without rolling your fingers, less of the surface |
| to get your prints recorded with the help of a | | | | area is recorded which means that these prints |
| professional. After all, you wouldn't want to | | | | will look smaller than the rolled images above |
| smudge your own prints and increase the risk of | | | | them. The thumbs will have to be recorded |
| being mistaken for someone else. | | | | separately from the other fingers simply because |
| Another reason to get professionals to make | | | | of the way that your hand is shaped but they will |
| your prints is that the procedure can be | | | | not be rolled either. |
| expensive. The price can vary anywhere from | | | | One of the most important things to keep in mind |
| twelve dollars to almost sixty dollars. And, if you | | | | while fingerprinting takes place is the amount of |
| have to get more than one fingerprinting done | | | | ink on your hands because too much or too little |
| every year, the expenses can really add up. | | | | ink will make details hard to distinguish. The ink |
| There are several places to go for professional | | | | must also be applied evenly to avoid dark or light |
| San Diego fingerprinting, but the quality prints that | | | | spots. |
| you are paying for should be consistent in several | | | | One fun thing to look for, after your fingerprints |
| ways. For example, fingerprints are usually | | | | have been made, is the type of pattern on your |
| recorded with black ink on a white card that has | | | | skin. There are three main classifications: arches, |
| been divided into three rows. The first two rows | | | | loops and whorls. Arches look like hills, loops usually |
| are both filled with rolled prints from each of your | | | | consist of lines that enter and exit from the same |
| ten fingers. Rolled prints are created one finger at | | | | side of the print and whorls are usually circular |
| a time by rolling each ink-covered digit gently | | | | patterns. |
| from left to right in the allotted space on the | | | | |