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Care and maintenance of your fingerprint reader
Failure to follow these guidelines and/or procedures might result in
damage to the reader or cause reader failure, finger recognition
problems, or lower finger recognition success rate.
Do not scratch or poke the reader with your nails or any hard or
sharp objects.
Do not press the reader with too much pressure.
Do not touch the reader with a wet finger or any wet objects.
Keep reader surface dry and free of water vapor.
Do not touch the reader with a soiled finger. Minute foreign
particles on a soiled or dirty finger may scratch the reader.
Do not paste stickers or write on the reader.
Do not touch the reader with a finger or any object with built-
up static electricity.
Observe the following before you swipe your finger on the reader,
whether for fingerprint enrollment/registration or recognition.
Wash and dry your hands thoroughly.
Remove static electricity from your fingers by touching any
metal surface. Static electricity is a common cause of reader
failures, especially during dry seasons such as winter.
Clean the reader with a lint-free cloth. Do not use detergent to
clean the reader.
Avoid the following finger conditions for enrollment or
recognition as they may result in fingerprint enrollment errors
or a drop in the fingerprint recognition success rate.
Observe the following to improve the fingerprint recognition
success rate.
Enroll two or more fingers.
Enroll additional fingers if recognition failure occurs often
using enrolled fingers.
Check your finger condition. Changed conditions, such as
injured, rough, extremely dry, wet, soiled, dirty, oily, soaked or
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Soaked or swollen finger (e.g., after taking bath)
Injured finger
Wet finger
Soiled or oily finger
Extremely dry skin condition on finger
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