Examples of Examinations Offered:

• writing and printing (identification or elimination of the writer)
• typewriters (classification, comparison, identification)
• alterations to documents
• restoring obliterated or destroyed entries
• medical records
• dating and identifying paper
• recovering information from burned, water-soaked, or damaged documents
• dating of documents (a variety of methods are employed to date documents)
• dating of ink
• recovering impressed writing
• latent fingerprints
• identifying paper from copy & fax machines any type of document evidence
• evaluating any paper or document evidence
• toxilogical examinations and consultations regarding any toxicology related issues

Our laboratory is a full-service forensic document laboratory. We specialize in all types of document problems. We offer complete examinations of questioned documents (only non-criminal matters in Michigan) and consultation regarding all types of problems involving document evidence. Ink dating techniques we employ were researched and developed by Valery Aginsky, Ph.D., and can provide crucial evidence in cases where dating writing on a document is critical (non-criminal matters only).

We also offer latent fingerprint identification, for paper evidence or any other type of evidence involving potential latent fingerprints. Latent prints on items other than documents can also be developed. Evidence can be processed for the presence of latent fingerprints. Developed latent fingerprints can then be compared with known impressions of an individual to determine if the individual touched an item.