Dear Daniel,
Why they ask to do it with take finger prints with a professional help is because, we might mess it up, and fbi will not be able to read out finger prints, so here is what i did
1. Printed more than 1 finger print card (i think 3 or 4)
2. Went to jarir and bough finger print ink (black)
3. Did finger prints on all 4 cards (just to make sure, one of them was readble, and that they wont come back to me saying they were unable to read them) - Now remember, read the finger print instructions carefully, it was hard to get the rolled finger prints, its hard but doable, do not put
too much ink, so that the lines and arches are not distinctive - what I did, after putting the ink from the ink pad, i took 2 finger prints on a blank piece of paper and the third one on the finger print card, that was the access ink was absorbed on the blank paper and the finger print card had the proper finger print / with visible and distinctive arches and separate micro lines in the finger print
4- i sent all of them to fbi (FedEx)
5- Received records with in 3wks time exactly (Note: i did mention that i need the results before certain date and pasted that cover letter on top of the envelop - as instructed by the fbi instructions) - They sent me back the extra finger prints card that i had sent them, and kept the one that was readable..
regards,