>>>>Use another means of highlighting, like different colors (foreground/background).
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>>You've been watching too much CSI Miami! :-)
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>Did anyone ever have a look at the software these guys use in real life? I very much doubt that rotating name label is essential to catching a criminal. Or that thousands of image refreshes are actually helping the fingerprint matching app.

Exactly my thought. Why display each print as it goes through the comparator? The human eye can't follow, and, like you say, it would slow up the search. But then again, I think we've established that we're at one on this subject :-)

Also, they scan in a dab from the scene, and the s/w auto. orientates and resizes it to those on the AFIS. I'm sure a human would be needed to ID, isolate and orientate the section of sample.