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as long as prints are required, I do think the digital prints are far superior. Are they accessable...no, not easily. In my neighborhood there is a "small business" that does the prints about 15 miles away from me, but very inconvenient most of the time. The owner/operator doesn't have the best attitude. One of my best buddies finally decided to send in his paper work after nearly losing credit for his nearly 2 year old CHL class, and got set up for his "appointment" for the prints a couple of weeks ago. Since he was only able to schedule a time for late afternoon at the 4:00 pm end of his work day, his "appointment" was scheduled for 4:30 pm..... by the time he found the place at the back of the small strip mall he was 3 minutes (THREE MINUTES) late. There was no other customers in the office and the "proprietor" refused to do the prints since my friend was 3 minutes (yes THREE) late...according to his clock anyway. Yep, when they are the ONLY game in town (and possibly not really CHL friendly as this guy may be the case), something just isn't right.

If it is a mandatory requirement then (my opinion) the governing authority should provide the means to do the necessary procedure. If they want to allow the applicant the option of using one of these private services, that's fine, but the local/county based DPS offices should be just as equipped to perform the mandatory procedure. They don't farm out the background check and investagtory work, and the prints are a part of that aren't they?