PrintScan experience

[JohnFreeman]

Went to get my prints done at a local place with a PrintScan setup and I have a couple observations.

* It's harder to get decent prints than at a Silencer Shop kiosk.
* The people in the store have very little to zero idea how to make it work.
* I probably did 300 tries to get the 24 prints I needed (one each hand 4 fingers, two thumbs, then rolls of each finger)
* Some of the prints the machine accepted as matching, look sketchy to me.
* It was no faster than driving to Smithfield and getting printed at the Sheriffs office
* $65


If I were to do it again, I wouldn't .

On the plus side, I have a digital copy of my prints which might be handy.

We'll see if ATF agrees with PrintScan's evaluation of my efforts.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

Mine was hit and miss, but generally it required me to press down way harder than I expected.

When I looked at the screen it would show the print but unless I mashed down hard enough to make it super dark it asked me to do it over. Once I did that it was fine.

 

[Bocephus]

I had similar issues getting mine done but one of the employees noticed, came over and suggested that I clean the scanner between scans. Once I did that, the scans were good and the process went quickly

 

[rbell2915]

Went to get my prints done at a local place with a PrintScan setup and I have a couple observations.

* It's harder to get decent prints than at a Silencer Shop kiosk.
* The people in the store have very little to zero idea how to make it work.
* I probably did 300 tries to get the 24 prints I needed (one each hand 4 fingers, two thumbs, then rolls of each finger)
* Some of the prints the machine accepted as matching, look sketchy to me.
* It was no faster than driving to Smithfield and getting printed at the Sheriffs office
* $65


If I were to do it again, I wouldn't .

On the plus side, I have a digital copy of my prints which might be handy.

We'll see if ATF agrees with PrintScan's evaluation of my efforts.

I am so glad I only had to do the PrintScan once. Holy shit. That was a horrible experience. It was even worse for my dad. How the technology is that bad is beyond my comprehension.

 

[NCLivingBrit]

I am so glad I only had to do the PrintScan once. Holy shit. That was a horrible experience. It was even worse for my dad. How the technology is that bad is beyond my comprehension.

I worked a site (big bunker of a building where the computers live that know where money gets moved around) that required my prints even if I was only there for one shift. The lady who scanned me took about five minutes and every print was good first time.

I'm guessing the Fed got the cheap crappy machine and paid the big expensive price for it and someone got kickbacks.

 

[paulk003]

I think that all of our evaluation on the experience are the same. The kiosk I went to the guy behind the counter said the videos wouldn't load and was of little to no help. I am going to submit the prints this week. If they get rejected because of the quality of the prints specifically I will file a dispute with my credit card company. If it works out all is well. I think the one thing anyone who goes to do this should know is that, there is no one there helping you to roll your prints and if you screw it up it is on you. Hence use a credit card to pay so you can dispute the charge if it gets rejected.