Paper evidence is commonly encountered in cases of fraud, extortion, forgery, and kidnaping, as well as in association with terrorist activity.The electrostatic detection apparatus (ESDA) is a standard tool in forensic document examination laboratories for imaging indentations on documents [1,2]. In addition, the ability of ESDA to develop fingermarks on paper items is well known among practitioners [3,4].Despite this, a well-established habit among fingerprint examiners is to consider only the marks developed with common chemical methods, such as ninhydrin, indandione, 1,8-diazafluoren-9-one, and physical developer (PD). On the other hand, the quantity and quality of the visualized ridge details with ESDA could be superior to the above-mentioned methods (D.N. Do, personal communication,