Abstract: A single use fingerprint inking card for use in making fingerprints including a front sheet and a back sheet, the sheets being secured together in overlapping relationship, the front sheet being cut to define a plurality of openings with hinged reclosable panels covering the openings, an inking sheet having fingerprint ink on one side and secured between the front sheet and the back sheet with the side bearing the ink facing the openings, so that the panels can be individually opened to expose the fingerprint ink and thereafter closed to cover it. The nature of the inking sheet and the ink are such that the ink tends to cling to the inking sheet, not the facing sheet.

Abstract: A kit for making permanently sealed transparent fingerprints using differential adhesion, including dry ink and means for applying the ink to fingers, a transfer strip having a backing sheet, a transparent adhesive print strip, and a protective cover, a transparent record sheet, print adhesive adhering together the protective cover and the adhesive print strip, backing adhesive adhering together backing sheet and the adhesive print strip, and the adhesives having such differential adhesion as to cause greater adhesion between the adhesive print strip and the backing sheet than between the adhesive print strip and the protective cover, and greater adhesion between the adhesive print strip and the record sheet than between the adhesive print strip and the backing sheet.