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L-1 Identity Solutions unveils TouchPrint 4800 Live Scan

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Stamford, Conn.-based L-1 Identity Solutions announced availability of the TouchPrint Enhanced Definition 4800 Live Scan product. The FBI Appendix F certified live scan is the smallest, lightweight device for capturing complete ten print and palm images including fingerprint rolls, slaps, thumbs, palms and writers’ edges. The TouchPrint ED 4800 is the only live scan capable of multi-capture on a patent-pending single, field-replaceable platen. The device features L-1’s proprietary Moisture Discriminating Optics to ignore the effects of moisture blobs from sweaty prints and deliver higher quality images. [end] 

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