Plum Creek Forensic Laboratory, LLC provides the following services:
- Analysis and comparison of handwriting, handprinting and numbers to identify or eliminate a writer.
- Determine common authorship of handwriting, handprinting or numbers.
- Detection of forged signatures and handwriting.
- Classification and identification of fonts, typewritten materials and typewriters.
- Examine facsimiles, photocopies, computer generated documents and commercial printing processes.
- Analysis to determine if a document contains alterations, erasures, obliterations, page additions or substitutions which may indicate a modification which was not authorized.
- Detection and decipherment of erased or indented writing.
- Non-destructive analysis of inks and paper through infra-red reflectance, luminescence and ultra-violet sources.
- Compare rubber stamps and checkwriters to identify or eliminate a machine.
- Conduct comparisons for a physical match.
- Examination of water-soaked, stained or charred documents.
- Expert testimony in Forensic Document Examination.
- Consulting services.
Instrumentation:
Full list of forensic equipment and library available upon request.
- Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Elements 4.0 (applied with forensic filters plug-in)
- Bogen Light Modulator (photo copy stand)
- Brother 560 Facsimile Machine
- Brother HL3070CW Digital Color LED Printer
- CanoScan LiDE220 (Color Image Scanner - Portable)
- Computer Fonts Reference Material
- Fax Fonts Reference Materials
- Foster & Freeman Video Spectral Comparator 2000HR
- HAAS Atlas (Typewriter Database)
- Hewlett Packard Laptop
- Lightning Powder Handheld Palm Print Magnifier
- Micrometer
- Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and Word
- Model J Infra-Red Microscope with blue optic light source
- Pentax MG 135mm Camera, macro lens capability
- Photocopier Reference Materials
- Polaroid MicroCam
- Polaroid Spectra Camera
- Reichert Stereo Star Zoom Microscope with boom stand 7.00X-30X Magnification
- RF Inter-Science Company Macroscope 18-36 Zoom
- Roscolux Color Filters
- Rosewill FBI-01 Desktop Computer
- Scalar Microscope (TheScope USB) 1X-10X and 30X Magnification (limited infra-red reflectance and luminescence capabilities)
- Sony Cyber Shot DSC-H300
- Spectra-Physics Inc. 155 Laser
- Stocker & Yale Imagelite Gooseneck Optical Light Source
- Transmitted Light Table
- Typewriter Grids/MS Power Point created grids
- Typography Grids/Rulers
- Ultra-violet capability with UV lamp (short/long wave)
- Vacu-Box for Indented Writing
- Video Spectral Comparator with a Mitsubishi Video Copy Processor P90W for infra-red reflectance and luminescence examinations.