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AccuPrint by Aware is a specialized fingerprint image-printing library designed for systems integrators, AFIS vendors, live scan vendors, and law enforcement agencies that must generate high-quality printouts of digitized fingerprint images.  As a software-based fingerprint image printing method, AccuPrint provides an affordable printing solution that has been designed to work with off-the-shelf laser printers. AccuPrint can print a single fingerprint image or palm image, or an entire agency specific ten-print card with text and graphics.  When used with certain 1200 dpi laser printers AccuPrint is certified by the FBI as being fully compliant with the “IAFIS Appendix F Printer Specifications” as defined by the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division.

Printing of Palm-print Images

There is a growing requirement to acquire, store and print palm images. AccuPrint supports the printing of all palm images (full palm with fingers, partial palm and writer’s palm). AccuPrint also supports the rotation of the palm images, which may be required to match the way in which the palm image should be placed on the card.

The print preview of the AccuPrint “PrintCard” utility showing a palm-print card.  When used with NISTPack, the palm image is extracted out of the type 15 record, decompressed, and printed by the AccuPrint engine.

Bar Code Printing

Frequently a ten-print card must include a bar code that was stored in the digital form of the card, typically in a type 2 field of the NIST record. AccuPrint can generate valid bar codes that comply with the code 39 format, the code 128 format and the PDF 417 (two dimensional format).

The AccuPrint layout file uses Java Script to enable a developer to add simple logic to the printing process. In some cases, the printed form of demographic text must be formatted differently than how it is stored digitally in the NIST file. Examples of this include:

• Dates (month, day, year) that must be rearranged

• Insertion of hyphens or slashes between data

• Puts check marks in check boxes based on the contents of a demographic data field 

When AccuPrint is used with NISTPack by Aware it provides an elegant solution that generates a printed ten-print card from the contents of an ANSI/NIST compliant transaction file or an FBI EFTS file. NISTPack parses the NIST file, WSQ decompresses the fingerprint and palm images, and JPEG decompresses mug shot or scar/mark/tattoo images.

AccuPrint receives the image and text data from NISTPack and prints each fingerprint image to a specified location on an 8x8 card or to standard paper stock. It prints the card graphics and prints demographic data from the type 1, type 2 and type 10 records into user specified locations on the ten-print card.

• FBI certified printing solution

• C language API for software developers

• ActiveX Control for Visual Basic programming

• Includes run-time applications and demos with source code

• Prints to standard paper stock, blank ten-print card stock, or pre-printed ten-print cards

• Prints front and back of cards

• Prints agency specific ten-print card text and graphics

• Available as a browser plugin when used with CJIS Web or NIST Archive by Aware.

• When used with NISTPack by Aware it allows for the viewing and printing of ANSI/NIST compliant fingerprint transaction files.

• Postscript

• PCL 5, PCL 6

• Designed specifically for grayscale fingerprint images

• Dramatically improves the native printing capability of MS Windows or Unix

• Low-cost solution supports Windows, UNIX, and off-the-shelf printers

• Includes documentation and example programs for ease of use

• Meets the FBI Image Quality Specification (IQS) for printers

• Original images scanned at 500 ppi

• Specific makes and models of 1200 dpi laser printers (contact Aware for details)

Specifications

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