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With advances in technology, more rapid matcher speed, and relatively inex- Figure 4.2
pensive storage, some vendors can now offer a single database that can be used Fingerprint Card Data
for both civil and criminal applications. Using a “load balancing” algorithm,
this type of AFIS can perform both tenprint and latent print searches in a des-
ignated priority or sequence. Other vendors prefer to separate their criminal