Printrak Ships Gear for Texas Project

Printrak International Inc. said Tuesday that it has shipped fingerprint matching equipment to EDS Corp. in Plano, Texas, for use in a project for California’s health and human services agency.

The Anaheim company valued its contract with EDS at $3.4 million.

Printrak is providing the matching engine that will compare fingerprints of welfare applicants to a database of 7 million records in an effort to prevent duplicate enrollments. A statewide network will connect fingerprint capture workstations at welfare offices in all of the state’s counties to the central database in the state capital.

Printrak also will provide software components for EDS workstations in local offices that ensure the quality of fingerprint images before they are transmitted to the central database.