Chemically developed latent prints can be colorful
FBI standard criminal fingerprint card
Tools of a Latent Print Examiner... magnifying glass and picks
FBI standard criminal fingerprint card
 Recommended Reading
Fingerprints, Palmprints and Footprints...
Updated 3 November 1999

These links port you to various publisher pages on the web.  You can print out the description and then "check-out" these books for free from your local library, or order them on-line to build your own professional reference resources. 

Basic/Introductory Reading

Fingerprint Discoveries:  The Illustrated Textbook of Fingerprint Identification
 Fingerprinting Merit Badge
Ident-A-Kid : The Official Fingerprint Book and Complete Identification Record

Police Officer/Intermediate Level Publications

The Origin of Finger-Printing
  

Expert Reading
Quantitative-Qualitative Friction Ridge Analysis: An Introduction To Basic and Advanced Ridgeology
David Ashbaugh's New Book
Fingerprint Detection With Lasers
An Intro to Lasers, Forensic Lights and Fluorescent Fingerprint Detection Techniques
Fingerprints, Palms, and Soles: An Introduction to Dermatoglyphics
Fingerprint Techniques
Advances in Fingerprint Technology

Borrow these from your library, from a friend, or buy them... 
 


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