To meet the needs of the law enforcement community, ITL convened a Fingerprint Data Interchange Workshop on September 22-24th in order to reevaluate the 1993 ANSI standard, "Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint Information." Workshop participants identified existing problems and recommended improvements to the standard. Suggestions adopted during the meeting clarified existing information fields and created additional tagged fields to meet the requirements of law enforcement. A new tagged field record structure was created for the interchange of palm print information. Two additional tagged field records were created for exchanging high-resolution known and latent fingerprint images. These record types require a minimum scanning resolution of 20 pixels per millimeter but allow for the use of higher scanning resolutions in anticipation of future product developments.

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