In the UK, many major police custody suites are now equipped with Live Scan machines, which allow for suspects' fingerprints to be instantly compared with a national database, IDENT1, with results usually reported in less than ten minutes.

In this section, we will be discussing the top five livescan devices that will help you to make a decision for your fingerprinting requirements. These five devices include the Suprema RealScan G10, Cross Match Verifier 310, Cross Match Verifier 320, Watson Mini and the Nitgen eNBioScan-D Plus.

The process of capturing fingerprints with a live scan fingerprinting machine is called live scan fingerprinting. A live scan fingerprint scanner looks like a normal fingerprint scanner, however, it may have additional equipment (e.g. laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) and, supporting software to process live scans.

Livescan fingerprinting is the process of capturing fingerprints electronically with our advanced LiveScan machine. With LiveScan fingerprinting, there is no ink or card. Your fingerprints are “rolled” across a glass plate and scanned. It is faster, cleaner and more accurate than the old ink-and-roll method.

Live scan is an electronic method of capturing a digital image of user fingerprints. Unlike traditional ink-fingerprinting, it does not require people to make manual ink impressions. An electronic fingerprint imaging equipment captures the digital image of the user fingerprint and processes it electronically.