The TFD-2 is an automated, high-throughput device capable of developing fingerprints on large quantities of documents. It dramatically reduces search times and manpower requirements for crimes requiring large volumes of office paper to be examined.

Top level international crime fighting organisations in the USⁱ and Australia have trialled a ground-breaking fingerprint detection device based on research from the University of Technology’s (UTSⁱ) Centre for Forensic Science.

UTS research commercialisation partner, UniQuest Pty Limited, licensed the intellectual property to global forensic science equipment company Foster + Freeman, which has manufactured the ‘TFD-2’, a version of the Thermal Fingerprint Developer used in the trials.ct

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