EXPERT FINGERPRINT WORKSTATION
Fingerprint Imaging Beyond Expectations
DCS®6 with RUVIS
VISUALISE | CAPTURE | ENHANCE
Ten years since DCS took fingerprint imaging beyond the visible spectrum, the benchmark for fingerprint photography has been raised beyond expectations with the new DCS 6 workstation complete with RUVIS latent print capability.
EXPERT FINGERPRINT WORKSTATION
Fingerprint Imaging Beyond Expectations
DCS®6 with RUVIS
VISUALISE | CAPTURE | ENHANCE
Ten years since DCS took fingerprint imaging beyond the visible spectrum, the benchmark for fingerprint photography has been raised beyond expectations with the new DCS 6 workstation complete with RUVIS latent print capability.
Reveal and Recover Maximum Ridge Detail from Every Fingerprint on Any Surface
Built around the modified Nikon Z9 mirrorless camera, DCS 6 includes powerful new print enhancement features and a comprehensive photographic toolset for the visualisation, capture, and enhancement of latent and treated fingerprints as evidence.
Deploy Powerful Multispectral Illumination and Cutting-Edge Optics for Unrivalled Results
Precise wavebands of illumination from Ultraviolet, Visible, and Infrared combine with application-specific macro lenses and a high-definition sensor to improve the visualisation of every fingerprint, whether it be latent, contaminated, or chemically treated.
Breaking New Ground
in Fingermark Imaging
DCS has long been the imaging system of choice for fingerprint experts worldwide. Today, DCS 6 represents a major upgrade to existing systems in the field, breaking new ground in fingerprint photography and enhancement to maximise the evidential value of every fingerprint while ensuring image integrity through a robust audit trail.
WHAT’S NEW?
DCS 6 RUVIS
DCS 6 sees the addition of Shortwave RUVIS (Reflected-UV Imaging System) capability. This incredible fingerprint contrast enhancement technique is time-efficient and non-destructive, while providing game-changing results.
NIKON Z9
DCS systems have always evolved with camera technology. Based around Nikon’s latest flagship mirrorless camera, the DCS 6 follows in this tradition to offer user-focussed and results-driven benefits, including significant increases to resolution and dynamic range, and instant Live View switching.
DCS SOFTWARE
DCS 6 offers users a new software platform, built from the ground up. Guided by 25 years of user feedback, this single, streamlined platform combines the best of previous DCS software modules with a superior interface to improve user workflows, accelerate processing, and ensure image integrity through a robust audit trail and SHA-256 Image Tamper Detection.
WHAT’S IMPROVED?
FULL SPECTRUM ILLUMINATION
Updated light sources combine with light guides to provide powerful and precise illumination across the spectrum, with the addition of Shortwave UV.
TRUSTED IMAGE INTEGRITY
An improved image validation and audit trail with robust SHA-256 Secure Image Tamper Detection (ITD) provides images you can trust beyond doubt.
INTEGRATED WORKSTATION
A bespoke, fully-integrated workstation provides a step-change in user experience, keeping the tools and accessories you require at your fingertips.
ENHANCEMENT TOOLSET
An extended Image Enhancement Toolset includes re-worked and simplified toolboxes, improved filters, a complex greyscale tool, and more.
Achieve Superior Contrast and Remove Backgrounds Like Never Before with DCS RUVIS
Latent print examiners can now, for the first time ever, combine DCS-level imaging with the incredible fingerprint contrast enhancement technique that is RUVIS (Reflected-UV Imaging).
Providing game-changing results, RUVIS offers a highly effective and time-efficient method for visualising and capturing latent and simply treated fingerprints (superglue etc.)
BEYOND EXPECTATIONS
DCS 6 RUVIS
REFLECTED UV IMAGING SYSTEM
An incredible fingerprint contrast enhancement technique, RUVIS is a non-destructive, highly effective, and time-efficient method which produces game-changing results when visualising and capturing latent fingerprints.
POWERFUL + PRECISE SHORTWAVE UV ILLUMINATION
The DCS 6 RUVIS module makes use of a robust Crime-lite 82S PRO, providing accurate and consistent 280nm illumination from a 16 LED array.
The Crime-lite 82S series holds an enviable reputation amongst crime scene examiners. Providing consistent, high-intensity, narrow bandwidth illumination in a robust and agile package, it is no wonder these devices have long remained the forensic light source of choice in many agencies.
Fingermark examiners can utilise this handheld device to ‘paint with light’, providing the intuitive user-experience often favoured when imaging complex prints with RUVIS. A range of mounting arms are also available.
DEDICATED SHORTWAVE UV CAMERA + LENS MODULE
To capture images of exceptional evidential value, the DCS RUVIS module features a dedicated shortwave UV camera, equipped with a UV specific lens.
Featuring precision-grade optics and a 200-1100nm CMOS sensor, this application-specific capture system empowers examiners to produce courtroom-ready images of exceptional quality.
The camera is fully integrated with DCS 6 software for a seamless workflow, allowing users to perform adjustments, enhancements, and add annotations, to maximise the potential of every fingerprint in a time-efficient manner.
VISUALISE | CAPTURE | ENHANCE
DCS 6 is designed to extract maximum value from every print while maintaining image integrity through a robust audit trail and SHA-256 Image Tamper Detection (ITD).
From versatile illumination techniques to no-compromise photographic capture and advanced digital enhancement, DCS 6 outperforms expectations at every stage of imaging process.
DCS 6 VISUALISE
MASTERY OF LIGHT
To capture high-quality identifiable fingerprints, ridge detail must first be visualised using a combination of imaging and illumination techniques engineered to meet the endless variable and challenges presented by fingerprint photography.
DCS 6 offers examiners a comprehensive selection of illumination sources and visualisation accessories including:
DCS 6 CAPTURE
EXCEPTIONAL IMAGING
Above all else, every DCS system is a professional photography workstation of the highest quality. As such, DCS 6 has been configured around the custom modified flagship NIKON Z9 full-frame mirrorless camera.
“As close to perfect as you can imagine”, the NIKON Z9 is the first mirrorless camera to be incorporated into a DCS workstation and offers a powerful feature set ideally suited to the photographic capture of fingerprints:
DCS 6 ENHANCE
MAXIMISE EVERY DETAIL
A significant update, the DCS 6 user interface elevates the digital enhancement process, providing a clean intuitive workspace with logically organised panels providing immediate access to essential tools. For complete confidence in evidence, SHA-256 Image Tamper Detection (ITD) tracks and records every image interaction to provide irrefutable proof of authenticity and the integrity of the forensic process.
Utilise an Array of Time-Proven Imaging Techniques to Unlock the Potential of Every Print
DCS 6 builds on tried-and-trusted imaging techniques, empowering examiners to reveal hidden prints, isolate details, and capture courtroom-ready evidence.
DCS 6 RUVIS: Reflected Ultra-Violet Imaging System
A powerful and effective technique, capable of eliminating background interference.
While RUVIS has long been a recognised fingerprint visualisation technique, recent advancements in component technology now enable examiners, for the first time, to achieve DCS-quality fingermarks using this powerful method.
RUVIS: Mitigating Risks for Unprecedented Detail
Shortwave UV poses health and DNA degradation risks, necessitating careful workflow planning and full PPE provision with DCS 6. However, this trade-off is balanced by RUVIS’s powerful capability to non-destructively reveal exceptional detail from latent or minimally treated fingerprints, especially challenging backgrounds, enabling enhanced forensic analysis.
Infrared Reflectance and Fluorescence Imaging
Utilising the Crime-lite 8×4 Mk4 or the halogen light source, infrared imaging provides examiners with another powerful ‘beyond visible’ technique to reveal high-quality fingerprints while effectively suppressing background interference.
Under IR imaging conditions, background surfaces often appear white as they reflect IR radiation. Conversely, certain chemical treatments such as Physical Developer and specific powders absorb IR, causing them to appear black. Furthermore, foster+freeman’s specialist fpNatural 2 fingerprint dusting powder uniquely fluoresces brightly in the infrared when illuminated with red light, completely eliminating interference from many backgrounds.
Cylindrical Surface Unwrapping
Designed to capture high-quality images of fingerprints from the cylindrical surfaces of bullet casings, pens, and hand tools etc., the CSU uniformly rotates items of evidence while the DCS 6 captures, stitches and blends a series of images together to create a single 2D image of the fingermark.
With illumination being provided by the Polarised Light Tunnel (PLT), items of evidence that had previously presented a significant challenge to forensic photographers can now be quickly and easily ‘unwrapped’ for examination and enhancement.
Original
Reflected UV
Reflected longwave UV Imaging
Many surfaces such as glass and plastics absorb UV and appear black, which improves the visibility of both treated and untreated latent prints which often reflect UV. Images can then be significantly enhanced using the DCS 6 software.
Image: Untreated latent fingerprint on clear perspex. Perspex appears black when illuminated and viewed under UV revealing the fingerprint which reflects UV
CSU-2 Accessory
‘Unwrapped’ Image
Cylindrical Surface Unwrapping
Designed to capture high-quality images of fingerprints from the cylindrical surfaces of bullet casings, pens, and hand tools etc., the CSU uniformly rotates items of evidence while the DCS 6 captures, stitches and blends a series of images together to create a single 2D image of the fingermark.
With illumination being provided by the Polarised Light Tunnel (PLT), items of evidence that had previously presented a significant challenge to forensic photographers can now be quickly and easily ‘unwrapped’ for examination and enhancement.
Image:
Using the CSU to capture and ‘unwrap’ images of fingermarks on bullets
Original
Visible Fluorescence
Fluorescence Imaging
Many latent fingerprint treatments such as Ardrox, DFO, BY40 and fluorescent powders fluoresce under specific wavelengths of light.
Using the DCS 6 multi-wavelength ring light an operator is able to select the optimum wavelength to generate the maximum intensity of fluorescence for each type of treatment.
Image:
Plastic bag treated with Polycyano UV and examined under UV illumination.
Original
Infrared Fluorescence
Infrared Imaging
Interfering backgrounds may be suppressed appearing white as they reflect IR whereas some chemical treatments such as Physical Developer and certain powders absorb IR and appear black. foster+freeman’s fingerprint dusting powder, fpNatural 1, fluoresces brightly in the infrared when illuminated with red light, eliminating interference from most backgrounds which rarely fluoresce at this wavelength.
Image: Polymer banknote treated with fpNatural 1 IR Fluorescent Powder, illuminated with red light using the Crime-lite 8x4Mk3 and viewed in the IR.
Achieve Unrivalled Results
The results achieved by the DSS 6 speak for themselves.
See the videos below for demonstrations of the system in action.
** VIDEOS TO BE REPLACED **
SYSTEM BASICS
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
Integrated Modules, Accessories, and Software, for Results Beyond Expectation.
The DCS 6 exceeds examiner expectations through the seamless integration of software, accessories, and modules, with each element designed to the highest specifications.
Base System
VSC90:
– Optional embedded PC, requires external monitor.
VSC90 Mobile:
– Includes embedded PC and integral 17″ display.
Document Imaging
Next-Generation Camera:
– Colour/IR high resolution imaging
– Up to 57 lp/mm spatial resolution
– Twin-lens optical zoom
– Spectral range, 350-1100 nm
14x visible and IR imaging filters
Standard Illumination (All LED)
Incident Flood:
Visible and IR. UV-A, UV-B, UV-C.
Removable transmitted light base:
Flood – UV, Visible, IR.
Spot – UV, Visible, IR.
Oblique/Side:
Visible and IR.
Narrowband Spot:
– 10x LED Array
– 1023 Waveband Combinations
– Automated Fluorescence Scan Mode
Specialist Illumination
(All LED)
OVD – Combined Circular and Vertical 42x LED Array.
Coaxial – Large-area Segmented Array.
Anti-Stokes – IR 980nm.
3D Imaging – Requires optional software.
Phosphorescence – Pulsed UV-A.
RFID e-Chip Reader with VSC STAC
Fully-Integrated reader and software
– Extract and decode using BAC and PACE protocols.
– Dual Page antenna.
– Read e-MRTD with document in-situ.
Core Software Features
- NEW VSC STAC (Secure Trust Authentication Chain)
- NEW VSCi Software with ‘Standalone Mode’
- User Specific ‘User Profile’ and ‘Gallery’
- Supports Windows 11 operating systems.
- Optimised for QHD (2560 X 1440) and 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) Display Resolutions
Image Viewing, Storage, Retrieval
- Live image mode with complete control of camera, lens, illumination, and filters.
- Realtime Field-of-View value displayed in mm.
- Supports multiple filetypes (BMP, JPG, J2K, PNG, TIFF, GIF, TGA) with embedded details.
- Image rotation, mirror, invert, and crop.
- Video recording of live image viewing with embedded details.
- False colour (pseudo colour), greyscale, and RGB channel separation options.
- NEW Yellow colour enhancement to visualise MIC or CPS codes (i.e. yellow dots).
- Digital zoom up to 16x
Comparison, Annotation, and Measurement
- Facilities to compare “Live vs Stored” images or “Stored vs Stored” images side-by-side, superimposed or subtracted, split, strobed, rotated and mirror inverted.
- Annotate captured images with text, shapes, and visual markers etc.
- Calibrated measurement of length, angle, area, and radius of a circle / ellipse etc.
- The measurement objects and values can be embedded in the saved image.
Security Feature Authentication
- NEW Flexible Next-generation VSC STAC Software for Rapid eChip Authentication. Facilitates PACE with EAC capability for eMRTD chip data reading and authentication (BAC, PACE, EAC, and TA, PA, AA, CA).
- Automatically locate, extract, and decode MRZ data on Passports, Visas, ID cards.
- Read data with OCR technique, with data validation and discrepancies automatically flagged.
- IPI/Digital IPI Decoder
- LetterScreen ++ Decoder
Base System
VSC90:
– Optional embedded PC, requires external monitor.
VSC90 Mobile:
– Includes embedded PC and integral 17″ display.
Document Imaging
Next-Generation Camera:
– Colour/IR high resolution imaging
– Up to 57 lp/mm spatial resolution
– Twin-lens optical zoom
– Spectral range, 350-1100 nm
14x visible and IR imaging filters
Standard Illumination (All LED)
Incident Flood:
Visible and IR. UV-A, UV-B, UV-C.
Removable transmitted light base:
Flood – UV, Visible, IR.
Spot – UV, Visible, IR.
Oblique/Side:
Visible and IR.
Narrowband Spot:
– 10x LED Array
– 1023 Waveband Combinations
– Automated Fluorescence Scan Mode
Specialist Illumination
(All LED)
OVD – Combined Circular and Vertical 42x LED Array.
Coaxial – Large-area Segmented Array.
Anti-Stokes – IR 980nm.
3D Imaging – Requires optional software.
Phosphorescence – Pulsed UV-A.
RFID e-Chip Reader with VSC STAC
Fully-Integrated reader and software
– Extract and decode using BAC and PACE protocols.
– Dual Page antenna.
– Read e-MRTD with document in-situ.
Core Software Features
- NEW VSC STAC (Secure Trust Authentication Chain)
- NEW VSCi Software with ‘Standalone Mode’
- User Specific ‘User Profile’ and ‘Gallery’
- Supports Windows 11 operating systems.
- Optimised for QHD (2560 X 1440) and 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) Display Resolutions
Image Viewing, Storage, Retrieval
- Live image mode with complete control of camera, lens, illumination, and filters.
- Realtime Field-of-View value displayed in mm.
- Supports multiple filetypes (BMP, JPG, J2K, PNG, TIFF, GIF, TGA) with embedded details.
- Image rotation, mirror, invert, and crop.
- Video recording of live image viewing with embedded details.
- False colour (pseudo colour), greyscale, and RGB channel separation options.
- NEW Yellow colour enhancement to visualise MIC or CPS codes (i.e. yellow dots).
- Digital zoom up to 16x
Comparison, Annotation, and Measurement
- Facilities to compare “Live vs Stored” images or “Stored vs Stored” images side-by-side, superimposed or subtracted, split, strobed, rotated and mirror inverted.
- Annotate captured images with text, shapes, and visual markers etc.
- Calibrated measurement of length, angle, area, and radius of a circle / ellipse etc.
- The measurement objects and values can be embedded in the saved image.
Security Feature Authentication
- NEW Flexible Next-generation VSC STAC Software for Rapid eChip Authentication. Facilitates PACE with EAC capability for eMRTD chip data reading and authentication (BAC, PACE, EAC, and TA, PA, AA, CA).
- Automatically locate, extract, and decode MRZ data on Passports, Visas, ID cards.
- Read data with OCR technique, with data validation and discrepancies automatically flagged.
- IPI/Digital IPI Decoder
- LetterScreen ++ Decoder
Explore How DCS 6 Can Enhance Your Fingerprint Imaging Practice
Contact us today to learn how the DCS 6 can transform your workflow, enhance the quality of your results, and redefine your expectations of a fingermark imaging system.
