Finger and footprint gelatin lifters
Gelatin lifters have been used by crime scene officers for more than a century but are still an indispensable tool in crime scene investigation. In the past, only transparent lifters were used, exclusively for lifting powdered fingerprints. Because gelatin lifters have a number of special characteristics, their use has broadened. A very important use of the black gelatin lifters nowadays is the lifting of shoeprints.
Gellifters have a low tack and a certain flexibility that enable them to lift traces (without inclusion of air bubbles) even from surfaces that are irregular (to a certain degree) and/or mechanically weak (paper, for example).
Black gelatin lifters absorb light so strongly, that even very faint shoeprints lifted with them can be photographed satisfactorily upon strong over-exposure.
Gelatin lifters are also used to secure micro traces (for example hairs, glass, paint traces), to visualize indented writing (lecture of H. v.d. Heuvel/Dutch National Forensic Laboratory, 2nd International Conference of the GFS, September 1995, the Hague; see for more information also the section product information), to lift treated finger- and footprints in blood (for example prints stained with Amido Black or Hungarian Red; see Staining of traces in blood) and even to lift fingerprints fumed with cyanoacrylate (Dutch article by Velders, M.J.M., Cyanoacrylaat en DFO, Modus, 1998, 7(5), page 25-30; lecture at 1998 IAI conference, see handout).
Cat. No. Description
B-11000 Fingerprint lifter, black, 13 x 18 cm, 10 sheets
B-14000 Fingerprint lifter, white, 13 x 18 cm, 10 sheets
B-17000 Fingerprint lifter, transparent, 13 x 18 cm, 10 sheets
B-17100 Fingerprint lifter, transparent, 9 x 13 cm, 10 sheets
B-12000 Footprint lifter, black, 13 x 36 cm, 2 sheets
B-15000 Footprint lifter, white, 13 x 36 cm, 2 sheets
B-18000 Footprint lifter, transparent, 13 x 36 cm, 2 sheets
Cat. No. Description
B-12500 Footprint lifter, black, 18 x 36 cm, 2 sheets
B-12900 Footprint lifter, black, 36 x 45 cm, 4 sheets
B-15500 Footprint lifter, white, 18 x 36 cm, 2 sheets
B-18200 Footprint lifter, transparent, 18 x 36 cm, 2 sheets
