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A former NFL player, Hansmire has persuaded leaders in multiple states to spend millions of dollars purchasing inkless fingerprinting kits on the promise that they could help find missing children.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2023

Could I press hard enough with an inkless pen to be able to reveal the indentations of my handwriting after the fact by rubbing over them with crayon?

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Every week I feel smug, sure I’ll win a bag or mug, Yet each Thursday finds me inkless and depressed; Someday I’ll amuse her — then I’ll be a Loser!

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2019

The words taste inkless, bland, as if blank paper.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2018

He beheld a three-legged stool, a hacked desk, an inky steel-pen, an inkless inkstand; but no Cap'n Ambuster.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various