Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) technology is used in a variety of law enforcement and civil applications. In law enforcement, fingerprints are collected from arrested subjects and searched against local, state, regional, and/or national fingerprint databases. The subject's ten fingerprints are acquired either through the traditional ink-and-roll method or through an optical livescan system, consisting of a sizeable fingerprint scanner, PC, and imaging and transmission software.