1.   A fingerprint examiner then checks each manually.

2.   But solving crimes is often a race against time, Palm Beach County fingerprint examiner Jay Mullins said.

3.   Once the systems are linked, Palm Beach County fingerprint examiners will run the hundreds of unidentified fingerprints collected over the last two years against the statewide database.

4.   The affidavit states that Getty then took the fingerprints of Shawn Butner and Tom Butner to a police fingerprint examiner.

5.   The speed of technology is to blame, fingerprint examiners said.

6.   Two separate certified fingerprint examiners checked the two sets of left palm prints for similarities.