We love our customers, and we love to give back to the Mentalix community by providing the best products and service to each and every one of the organizations and agencies that rely on our systems to get the job done. If you’re a Mentalix customer, whether for many years or only a…
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How Physical Archives Keep Cases Cold (and What You Can Do About It)
Sometimes the difference between a conviction and a cold case is a single piece of paper. Every day, thousands of fingerprints are submitted to the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) Database in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and everyday thousands of prints are matched to one of over one hundred million civil and criminal records…
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Biometric Blitz: The Expanding Applications of Identification
The future is officially here – you can now buy a burger with your face. Since 2017, International fast food chain Caliburger has been testing new, fully automated ordering kiosks that use facial recognition to remember customer’s payment information and order history, all with just a look. Such an advancement sounds astonishing, or…
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Who You Say You Are: The Importance of Release Verification
In an age of facial recognition, fingerprinting, and iris scanning, it’s easier than ever to know who is who. Famous cases of mistaken identity, like the 1903 case of Will and William West, two unrelated men whose identical measurements nearly got both of them life sentences, are becoming fewer and farther between. However, these steady…
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Eyes on the Prize: Iris Scanning Explained
Iris scanners have long been a staple of super spy block busters and Hollywood heists. In the movies iris scanners are exceptionally high tech affairs, almost as expensive as the riches they’re designed to protect, relying on sweeping lasers and holographic overlays to thwart plucky thieves and rogue agents alike. In reality, iris…
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RISC-y Business: Why Mobile ID Matters
Phones no longer have cords, TVs no longer have tubes, and dial up is on its way to being well and truly dead. The times they are a-changin’, and every day the future is looking more and more wireless. Being able to take your tech on the go is not only convenient, but necessary to…
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The Mentalix Conference Season Survival Guide
Spring has sprung here in Dallas. The days are longer, the weather is wetter, and conference season is right around the corner. Every year Mentalix attends numerous industry events all across the country, and every year we pick up a few more tips and tricks of the trade show. Learn how to make…
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All-Inclusive is Palm-Inclusive: The Near Future of Printing
If fingerprints are like snowflakes, then palm prints are like blizzards, positively packed with unique identifying information and almost impossible to miss. While fingerprints remain the gold standard of biometric data, the rise of palm prints in law enforcement, federal government, and financial institutions all point to a future of whole-hand scanning. …
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Quick Tips for Better Prints
Whether you’re a printing expert or a rolling novice, as the old saying goes, “there’s always room for improvement” and here at Mentalix we’re big fans of improvement. If you want to brush up on your print taking in the hopes of rolling the perfect print every time, or if you’re new to the…
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New Training Refreshment Sessions
At Mentalix we’re committed to bringing our customers high quality products and even higher quality service. So, we’re pleased to announce complimentary quarterly training sessions for all our current maintenance customers, hosted in our new conference center. These training sessions will be offered for an extended introductory period to current maintenance customers, at no additional cost,…