says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

 

 

I Believe it does. And dont laugh about the typewriter, we had our Complaint System go down a few weekends ago, and had to scramble to find a working typewriter to do criminal complaints..i found out we had ONE left in the entire department, and someone had to be called in to get it out of storage.

says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

 

 

I Believe it does. And dont laugh about the typewriter, we had our Complaint System go down a few weekends ago, and had to scramble to find a working typewriter to do criminal complaints..i found out we had ONE left in the entire department, and someone had to be called in to get it out of storage.

 

Did it have ink?

says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

 

 

I Believe it does. And dont laugh about the typewriter, we had our Complaint System go down a few weekends ago, and had to scramble to find a working typewriter to do criminal complaints..i found out we had ONE left in the entire department, and someone had to be called in to get it out of storage.

 

Did it have ink?

 

At one time, sadly not all that long ago. we went into a weekend with ONE ribbon and of course it was one of "Those" weekends, by Saturday night We didnt have a typewriter left that worked and we were doing reports by hand...which was pretty interesting when it went to court and we had to explain to the Prosecutor's office why reports for an attempt Homicide/Kidnapping were hand written. Afer that everyone kept a emergency ribbon in their locker.

We still type all our reports using IBM Selectric's.

They are still needed for a few multi-part forms. Really the dark ages but one supervisor has held up progress for years.

 

A large law firm I worked for in NJ for many years always had a few typewriters around the office as a few forms required it.

We still type all our reports using IBM Selectric's.

They are still needed for a few multi-part forms. Really the dark ages but one supervisor has held up progress for years.

 

A large law firm I worked for in NJ for many years always had a few typewriters around the office as a few forms required it.

 

Royal manuals for the first three years..we thought we were badass when they bought us Smith-Corona Electrics

You can't get parts when they break. I found a guy in Nutley not far from the house that repaired them. He had tons of older ones that were being striped for parts. Those type wheels and "stars" are really hard to get. I bought ribbons by the case. We still use a dot matrix printed for some of the SCIC/NCIC stuff.

 

The price of a rebuilt Selectric is much more than a decent computer workstation. But we still hang back in the 70's.

I just can't believe that in this computer age they need to use a typewriter. I looked at all my permits and they all are type, some have the firearm section type other are hand written.

says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

 

I know for the FL CCW permit, we all hand filled in our info and I know Mark already got his back. Don't know if this is different or not but it was on a fingerprint card though.

 

M

says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

 

I know for the FL CCW permit, we all hand filled in our info and I know Mark already got his back. Don't know if this is different or not but it was on a fingerprint card though.

 

M

 

 

thanks im an idiot.. it says type OR write in black ink...

 

thanks..

says on my fingerprint card that the information has to be typed in.. but my local PD said they dont have a typewriter.. any idea if it HAS to be typed..

 

I know for the FL CCW permit, we all hand filled in our info and I know Mark already got his back. Don't know if this is different or not but it was on a fingerprint card though.

 

M

 

 

thanks im an idiot.. it says type OR write in black ink...

 

thanks..

 

no problem, its what we are all here for!!