Why select PrintQuest over other brands

Why select PrintQuest^® over other brands?

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Why select PrintQuest over other famous and less famous brands?
We could summarize in ONE statement:

Top Accuracy combined with affordable Price!

BEYOND ACCURACY AND LOW PRICE, HERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER REASONS WHY PRINTQUEST IS THE SYSTEM YOU NEED:

- Full flexibility in Latent quality and scale for input to the PrintQuest Database !
how many latents has the state AFIS rejected because the print is not good enough, while YOU can easily see viable points.

- Automated Extraction for TP cards (Patterns are semi-automatic). Thanks to its high accuracy pattern auto-extraction of centers and deltas, PrintQuest allows very fast tenprint card entry as opposed to other systemsthat require a lot of checking and edition.

- Fully automated palm entry: You can create a large database very quickly.

- Very powerful and accurate extraction for latents: Save a lot of time for Latent entry.

- Multiple parameters innovative technique using true Skeleton information for the searches.

- Fully Scalable concept: You can add more Matchers (CPU processors) to increase speed, Single PC, medium or large Servers, PrintQuest is fully expandable.

DID YOU KNOW THIS ?

PRINTQUEST IS THE ONLY LOW COST AFIS SYSTEM WITH
FBI CERTIFIED “SCANNER/ SCANNING SOFTWARE” FOR TEN-PRINT
ENTRY (500 dpi)

Recommendations for comparisons (the fast and more detailed versions)

Each company should:

- Provide a PC already loaded with 5,000 to 15,000 cards (Verify it…), meaning you get 50,000 to 150,000 fingerprints and 10,000 to 30,000 palmprints to search YOUR cards/latents pairs through. Cards must be all different, not duplicated, for proper statistics: After a few searches, you will be able to verify it: If cards have been duplicated, they will show as consecutive cards in the candidate lists.

- Provide a ½ day training/demo and then let one of your operators process the samples by himself. So you get a good idea of :

a/ How friendly the system is.

b/ How much the system does for you automatically, and how much remains to be done manually…Time counts…even if accuracy should be your first focus when you get your own small size Afis. Not all systems include powerful tools to avoid lengthy checking procedures

c/ How accurate systems are: Record the number of hits in top position in the candidate lists for each latent, the number of hits in position 2-5, 6-10 or worse. The best System is the one that provides the most hits in the positions closest to the top of the list, and with the least number of complete missed hits. The more latents you process, the more representative your test is.

Ideally the various vendors’ systems should be compared with the same minutiae extractions on the latents (but also track how much time is needed to reach this "perfect" minutiae extraction on the latents…

You should pull from your files:

6-8 cards (if you test the system for a day) or 20-40 cards if you get the system for 2 days. These cards should include palm files too if you will be using that capability. Most Afis systems fingerprint matching techniques are NOT good enough for palms which require much more complex algorithms to give proper accuracy, so test BOTH capabilities. 8-12 latent fingerprints that were manually matched with the above cards by your Dept. (or 12-25 if you have 2 days) 6-8 latent palmprints… (or 12-25 for a two day evaluation).

We recommend that the latent fingerprints and palmprints range from 10-25 matching points.

Test it all if possible. AFIS is not just a large investment that justifies getting the best, it MUST perform extremely well or criminals will remain at large.

NOTE for LARGE AGENCIES:
If you are a large agency that plans to build a Database with more than 50,000 ten-print cards and will spend more than $100K, we recommend tests that last more than 2 days…

Not all famous systems on the market feature the same accuracy…

Again, check the palmprint capabilities of all these companies that claim to have palm capability. Palm algorithms are very complex and we are confident the PrintQuest Solution will do the best job for you ! Performance with Fingerprints is NOT representative of palmprint performance.