JP3012995B2 - ID card, ID booklet, and its creation device - Google Patents

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Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an ID card and an ID booklet having a face photograph and characters protected on the surface, and an apparatus for producing the same.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, as an ID card and an ID booklet in which various personal information for identifying a person such as a face photograph and an address, an affiliation, a name, a personal code number, etc. are formed, for example, a license, a credit card , Employee ID, student ID, alien registration ID, passport, etc.

As means for creating these, for example, there have been methods such as pasting a cut-out face photograph on a mount on which personal information is described, and directly projecting the face photograph and characters and printing it on photographic paper.

These ID cards and ID booklets perform their functions well in normal usage, but if they are lost, for example, replace or modify the photo, or forge or misuse them without going through the legitimate production route. In some cases, causing social problems.

For this reason, in the past, when creating an ID card and an ID booklet, a device such as pressing a tally, especially on a face photograph, has been devised. In recent years, instead of this, it has become widespread to record image information on color photographic paper or the like and to laminate the image recording surface of the color photographic paper.

As described above, the production of ID cards and ID booklets by laminating color photographic papers and the like is currently widely performed, but in many cases, the production is performed manually, and the burden on the creator is extremely large. However, there is a problem that it takes a lot of time to issue, and the applicant has to wait for a long time.

On the other hand, a method of printing image information such as a photograph of a face on an image receiving paper such as a cart by, for example, a sublimation type thermal transfer method and then bonding the image information to a laminate film has been used.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, when printing is performed by the thermal transfer method, the burden on the creator and the time required for issuance can be greatly reduced as compared with the case of using the printing paper. There was a problem.

That is, the first problem is that when printing is performed by a thermal transfer method, when printing is performed by heating with a thermal head or the like on a backing sheet as a transfer target, it is difficult to adhere to a platen roller or the like, and it is difficult to obtain a sufficient transfer density. was there. The second is that the quality of the image is greatly affected by the smoothness of the transfer object,
There was a problem of falling very much.

As means for solving the above problem, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
Image information is printed on a laminated film provided with an image receiving layer by a sublimation type thermal transfer method as described in No. 66,
There is a method of printing character information by a fusion type thermal transfer method,
In this method, air bubbles remain at the time of lamination, the laminated film and the image forming layer do not adhere to each other, and there is a problem in the quality of the ID card and the ID booklet.

Usually, when performing lamination, a method of preventing the generation of air bubbles by providing irregularities on the laminate film side is known. However, when printing is properly performed on the laminate film side by the thermal transfer method as described above, the irregularities are formed. It becomes an obstacle, and both the printing quality of the image and the like by the sublimation type and the printing quality of the character image by the fusion type deteriorate due to poor smoothness of the image receiving surface, and a new problem occurs.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and a first object of the present invention is to provide an ID card and an ID card in which a surface having an excellent image is protected and counterfeiting and tampering are prevented.
A booklet and an apparatus for producing the booklet are provided.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an ID card and an ID booklet in which no air bubbles remain between a printed backing sheet and a laminate film for protecting the surface, and an apparatus for producing the same.

Further, a third object of the present invention is to provide an ID card and an ID booklet having excellent suitability for thermal transfer printing, and an apparatus for producing the same.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the problems, the ID of the invention according to claim 1
The card prints characters, figures and symbols on the backing paper in advance,
On the printing side of this mount, a concavo-convex layer is formed by printing with a transparent resin ink, and a laminate film having an image-receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance and a transparent support, the image-receiving layer side being the concavo-convex layer side of the mount It is characterized in that it is configured by being bonded to a.

Also, the ID booklet according to the second aspect is the ID booklet according to the first aspect.
It is characterized by having a card.

Further, the ID card creation device according to claim 3, a printing unit that provides a concavo-convex layer by printing with transparent resin ink on the printing side of the mount on which characters, figures and symbols are printed in advance,
It is characterized in that it has a laminating section for laminating a laminate film having an image receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance and a transparent support, with the image receiving layer side being attached to the uneven layer side of the mount.

Further, the ID booklet producing apparatus according to claim 4, a printing unit that provides a concavo-convex layer by printing with a transparent resin ink on the printing side of the mount on which characters, figures, and symbols have been printed in advance,
A booklet assembling section for assembling a booklet having the mount, and a laminating section for bonding a laminate film having an image-receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance and a transparent support to the image-receiving layer side on the uneven layer side of the mount. It is characterized by having.

In the ID card and the ID booklet of the present invention, after printing characters, figures, symbols, and the like on the backing paper in advance, a concavo-convex layer is provided by printing with a transparent resin ink without coloring material.

The mount used in the present invention does not need to function as an image receiving sheet support, so that various materials can be widely used. That is, plain paper or cord paper mainly composed of cellulose, baryta paper, polyolefin-coated paper, synthetic paper (polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, etc., having fine voids as a main component, a transparent film base formed of pigments and binders) Opaque layer, or a composite material obtained by laminating them with paper or plastic film), white polyethylene terephthalate film containing TiO ₂ , BaSO _4, etc. A film composed mainly of vinyl chloride or a composite material of the above films, or a composite material made of synthetic leather, natural leather, other resins, etc. for the outermost cover for booklets and the above-mentioned material for the backing paper. Materials and the like can be used.

In the present invention, the method of printing a transparent resin ink containing no colorant such as a pigment or a dye on a mount is not particularly limited, but gravure printing, intaglio printing, emboss printing, or the like is preferable.

The resin ink used in the present invention is not particularly limited as long as it is a vehicle containing no colorant such as a pigment or a dye and a transparent ink using an auxiliary agent, but the resin in the vehicle used in the present invention is not particularly limited. For gravure printing, natural resins such as shellac, rosin, rosin-modified maleic acid, nitrified cotton, cellulose acetate, polyamide, and chlorinated rubber and derivatives thereof, polyolefin resins, ethylene-acrylic acid copolymers, ethylene- Synthetic resins such as acrylate copolymers, vinyl chloride, ethylene-acid-bipolymer, chlorinated polypropylene, acryl, urethane, and isocyanate can be used. For intaglio printing, synthetic dry oil, resin varnish, or the like is used. Further, the auxiliary agent used in the present invention includes a drying regulator such as a phenolic compound and a film regulator such as a silicone compound and a wax.

As a method of embossing printing that can be used in the present invention, there is a thermoplastic powder called embossograph or barco, and after printing this with letterpress or offset, the powder is sprinkled with the ink in an undried state, The powder is then sucked off, leaving only the undried ink.
Then, the powdered thermoplastic resin is melted by heating with a heater and glued on the ink to create a relief state. Each unit of spraying, suction, heating and cooling is installed on the endless metal bed, and if an undried printed matter is set in the first part, it will flow automatically. There are several types of powder with different particles, and the maximum is to use large particles
It is possible to raise to about 0.10mm. Also,
After heating, the resin becomes transparent and the undercolor can be seen.

In the present invention, after printing characters, figures, symbols, etc. on the backing paper in advance, printing with a transparent resin ink without coloring materials such as pigments, dyes, etc.
It is preferably from 0.5 to 50 μm. That is, if the thickness is 0.5 μm or less, air is not sufficiently released during lamination, and air bubbles enter. On the other hand, when the thickness is 50 μm or more, it becomes difficult to actually form an uneven layer by a printing method, and when laminating, a character image easily bleeds and the image quality is deteriorated, and unevenness appears on the surface after lamination. There is.

The center plane average roughness referred to in the present invention is based on the following definition. That is, when a portion having an area S _M is extracted from the roughness surface on the center surface thereof, an axis orthogonal to the center surface of the extraction portion is defined as a Z axis, and the roughness surface is represented by Z = f (X, Y). The following equation gives the center plane average roughness (SRa).

The measurement of the center plane average roughness (SRa) of the hot melt layer
This can be done as follows. In other words, three-dimensional roughness analyzer SPA-11 manufactured by Kosaka Laboratory Co., Ltd., Surfcoder S
Using an E-30H and 3D controller AK-11, a roughness curve is measured at a pitch of 10 μm on a 5 mm ² area with a diamond needle having a diameter of 4 μm. At this time, the cutoff value (λ
Set c) to 0.8 mm and the feed rate to 0.5 mm / sec.

In the present invention, a laminate film on which images and characters are formed in a mirror image in advance is used. This laminate film has an image receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance and a transparent support.

As a method of forming images and characters on the same laminate film on the image receiving layer of the laminate film, for example, image information such as a face is sublimation-type thermal transfer method, address, affiliation,
It is advantageous to form character information including various personal information such as name and personal code number expiration date by a fusion type thermal transfer method.

As the laminated film used in the present invention, a film obtained by forming an image receiving layer on a transparent film of, for example, about 50 to 100 μm of polyester, polyolefin, vinyl chloride resin or the like can be used. Alternatively, a self-supporting image receiving layer which also serves as the image receiving layer itself, such as a vinyl chloride resin, can be used.

The ink layer that can be used for the sublimation-type thermal transfer of the present invention basically contains a heat-diffusible dye and a binder.

Thermal diffusible dyes include cyan dye, magenta dye,
Yellow dyes can be mentioned.

Examples of cyan dyes include JP-A-59-7896 and JP-A-59-2279.
No. 48, No. 60-24966, No. 60-53563, No. 60-130735
No. 60-131291, No. 60-239289, No. 61-19396
No. 61-22993, No. 61-31292, No. 61-31467,
No. 61-35994, No. 61-49893, No. 61-148269, No. 62
-191191, 63-91288, 63-91287, 63-29
Examples include naphthoquinone-based dyes, anthraquinone-based dyes, and azomethine-based dyes described in each publication such as No. 0793.

As magenta dyes, JP-A-59-78896 and JP-A-60-3
No. 0392, No. 60-30394, No. 60-253595, No. 61-26219
No. 0, No. 63-5992, No. 63-205288, No. 64-159, No.
Examples thereof include anthraquinone dyes, azo dyes, and azomethine dyes described in each gazette such as 64-63194.

As yellow dyes, JP-A-59-78896 and 60-2
No. 7594, No. 60-31560, No. 60-53565, No. 61-12394
And methine dyes, azo dyes, quinophthalone dyes and anthrisothiazole dyes described in JP-A Nos. 63-122594 and 63-122594.

Particularly preferred as the thermal diffusible dye is a compound having an active methylene group of a closed type or a closed type obtained by a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of a p-phenylenediamine derivative or an oxidized form of a p-aminophenol derivative. An indoaniline dye obtained by a coupling reaction with an azomethine dye and an oxidized form of a phenol or naphthol derivative, an oxidized form of a p-phenylenediamine derivative, or an oxidized form of a p-aminophenol derivative.

The thermal diffusible dye contained in the ink layer may be any of a yellow dye, a magenta dye and a cyan dye as long as the image to be formed is a single color.

Further, depending on the color tone of the image to be formed, it may contain any two or more of the two dyes or other heat-diffusible dyes.

The amount of thermally diffusible dye, usually, the support 1 m ² per 0.1
-20 g, preferably 0.2-5 g.

As the binder, ethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, cellulose acetate, cellulose-based resins such as cellulose acetate; polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl formal,
Vinyl resins and rubbers such as polyvinyl brillal, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyester, polyvinyl acetate, polyacrylamide, polyvinyl acetoacetal, styrene resin, styrene copolymer resin, polyacrylate, polyacrylic acid, acrylic acid copolymer Resin, ionomer resin, olefin resin and the like.

Among these resins, polyvinyl butyral, polyvinyl acetoacetal or cellulose resin having excellent acid resistance is preferable.

One of the various binders can be used alone, or two or more of them can be used in combination. The weight ratio of the binder and the heat-diffusing dye is 1:10
~ 10: 1 is preferred, with a range of 2: 8-8: 2 being particularly preferred.

Further, various additives can be added to the ink layer as long as the object of the present invention is not impaired. Examples of the additives include silicone resin, siliconoyl (reaction curing type is also possible), silicon-modified resin, fluororesin, surfactants and release compounds such as waxes, fine metal powder, silica gel, metal oxide, carbon black, and the like. Fillers such as resin fine powders, and curing agents (for example, radiation-active compounds such as isocyanates, acryls, and epoxies) that can react with a binder component can be given.

Further, as an additive, a fusible substance for promoting transfer, for example, compounds described in JP-A-59-106997 such as waxes and higher fatty acid esters can be exemplified.

As the transparent support used in the present invention, any material can be used as long as it has good dimensional stability and can withstand heat during recording with a thermal head, such as condenser paper, thin paper such as glassine paper, polyethylene terephthalate, or polyethylene. A heat-resistant plastic film such as naphthalate, polyamide, polycarbonate, polysulfone, polyvinyl alcohol cellophane, or polystyrene can be used.

The thickness of the transparent support is preferably 2 to 10 μm, and the support has an undercoat layer for the purpose of improving adhesion to a binder, transferring a dye to the support, and preventing dyeing. You may.

Further, an anti-sticking layer may be provided on the back surface (the side opposite to the ink layer) of the transparent support for the purpose of preventing the head from fusing, sticking and wrinkling on the transparent support. The thickness of the anti-sticking layer is usually 0.1 to 1 μm.

The thermal transfer recording ink sheet is prepared by dispersing or dissolving various components for forming an ink layer in a solvent to prepare an ink layer forming coating liquid, applying the coating liquid on the surface of the transparent support, and drying. It can be manufactured by the following. In addition,
One or more binders are used by dissolving them in a solvent or dispersing them in a latex form.

Examples of the solvent include water, alcohols (eg, ethanol, propanol), cellosolves (eg, methyl cellosolve, ethyl cellosolve), aromatics (eg, toluene, shikiren, chlorobenzene), ketones (eg, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone), and ester solvents. (Eg, ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, etc.), ethers (eg, tetrahydrofuran, dioxane), chlorinated solvents (eg, chloroform, trichloroethylene) and the like.
For the coating, conventionally known gravure rolls may be used, such as a gravure roll, a separate coating method, an extrusion coating method, a wire bar coating method, and a roll coating method.

The ink for forming a hot-melt ink layer used in the present invention comprises a colorant and a vehicle, and may further contain various additives as necessary. The coloring agent is preferably an organic or inorganic pigment or dye having good characteristics as a recording material, for example, a coloring agent having a sufficient coloring density and not discoloring by light, heat, temperature, or the like. In addition, a substance which is colorless when not heated, but which develops color when heated, or which develops color when it comes into contact with a substance applied to an object to be transferred may be used. In addition to the colorants that form cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, colorants of various other colors can also be used.

As the vehicle, a mixture of wax as a main component, and other components such as a wax and a derivative of a drying oil, a resin, a mineral oil, cellulose, and rubber is used. Representative examples of the wax include microcrystalline wax, carnauba wax, and paraffin wax. Furthermore, various waxes such as Fischer-Tropsch wax, various low-molecular-weight polyethylenes, wood wax, beeswax, spermaceti, Ibota wax, wool wax, ceramics wax, candelilla wax, betrolatum, partially modified wax, fatty acid ester, fatty acid amide, etc. Used.

In addition, a heat conductive substance can be added to the heat fusible ink in order to provide the heat fusible ink layer with good heat conductivity and melt transferability. This substance includes carbonaceous substances such as carbon black, aluminum, copper, tin oxide,
Molybdenum disulfide and the like. As a method of directly or indirectly forming a hot-melt ink layer on a base film, a hot lacquer coat,
A gravure coat, a gravure reverse coat, a roll coat, a method of applying the above-mentioned ink by many other means, and the like can be mentioned. The thickness of the ink layer to be formed should be determined so as to balance the required density with the heat sensitivity, and is in the range of 0.1 to 30 μm, preferably 1 to 20 μm.

In the present invention, a surface layer can be further formed on the ink layer. This surface layer forms a part of the transfer film, forms a surface in contact with the transfer paper, seals the printing portion of the transfer paper at the time of transfer, prevents background contamination, and has an ink layer on the transfer paper. Has the function of improving the adhesiveness to

The wax used for forming the surface layer is the same substance as the wax used for the above-mentioned hot-melt ink layer.

The surface layer made of the wax is formed by applying and cooling a wax solution, applying and drying an organic solvent solution containing the wax, and applying and drying an aqueous dispersion containing the particles of the wax.

Coating of the surface layer can also be performed by various techniques as in the formation of the ink layer. In the present invention, the thickness of this layer is preferably 0.1 μm or more and less than 5 μm so that the sensitivity is not insufficient even when the printing energy is low as in a high-speed type printer.

It is recommended that an appropriate amount of extender be added to the surface layer. Thereby, bleeding and tailing of the print can be prevented more favorably.

The image receiving layer that can be used in the present invention can be formed with a binder for an image receiving layer and various additives. In some cases, it may be formed only from the binder for the image receiving layer.

As the binder for the image receiving layer, polyester resin, polyvinyl chloride resin, vinyl chloride copolymer (for example, vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer), acrylate, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polycarbonate, cellulose triacetate, styrene-acrylate resin, Vinyl toluene
Examples include acrylate resins, polyurethane resins, polyamide resins, urea resins, polycaprolactone resins, styrene-maleic anhydride resins, polyvinyl chloride resins, polyacrylonitrile resins, and the like. Among these, preferred are vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymers, polyester resins, polyvinyl chloride resins and the like.

The above various resins may be newly synthesized and used, or commercially available products may be used. For example, commercially available polyester resins include Byron 200, Byron 290, Byron 600, etc. [all manufactured by Toyobo Co., Ltd.], KA-103
8C [manufactured by Arakawa Chemical Co., Ltd.], TP220, TP235 [all manufactured by Nippon Gosei Co., Ltd.] and the like.

The vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer preferably has a vinyl chloride component content of 50 to 100% by weight and a degree of polymerization of about 50 to 2500.

The vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer is not necessarily limited to a copolymer composed of only a vinyl chloride component and a vinyl acetate component, and includes a vinyl alcohol component, a maleic acid component, and the like within a range not to impair the object of the present invention. It may be.

Such vinyl chloride-acetic acid copolymers include, for example, Eslek A, Eslec C, Eslec M [
Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.], Vinylino VACH, Vinylite VYHH, Vinylite VMCH, Vinylite VYHD, Vinylite
VYLF, vinylite VYNS, vinylite VMCC, vinylite VM
CA, Vinylite VACD, Vinylite VERR, Vinylite VROH
(All manufactured by Union Carbide), Denka Vinyl 1000GK
T, Denka vinyl 1000L, Denka vinyl 1000CK, Denka vinyl 1000A, Denka vinyl 1000LK2, Denka vinyl 1000A
S, Denka vinyl 1000MT2, Denka vinyl 1000CSK, Denka vinyl 1000CS, Denka vinyl 1000GK, Denka vinyl 10
Commercial products such as 00GSK, Denka Vinyl 1000GS, Denka Vinyl 1000LT3, Denka Vinyl 1000D, and Denka Vinyl 1000W [all manufactured by Denki Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.] are exemplified.

In any case, from the viewpoint of physical properties, as another resin for the image receiving layer, particularly a resin having a Tg of −20 to 150 ° C., and a Tg of 4
Resins that are between 0 and 120 ° C are preferred. The binder for the image receiving layer preferably has a molecular weight of 2,000 to 100,000.

If the above various resins have reactive active sites, the reactive active sites may be used, or if there is no reactive active site, they may be imparted and crosslinked or cured by radiation, heat, moisture catalyst, or the like. In that case, a radiation-active monomer such as epoxy or acrylic or a crosslinking agent such as isocyanate can be used.

A release agent, an antioxidant, a UV absorber, a light stabilizer, a filler (inorganic fine particles, organic resin particles), and a pigment may be added to the image receiving layer. Further, a plasticizer or the like may be added as a sensitizer. The release agent can improve the releasability between the thermal transfer recording ink sheet and the thermal transfer recording image receiving sheet.

Examples of such a release agent include silicone oils (including those referred to as silicone resins); solid waxes such as polyethylene wax, amide wax, and Teflon powder; and fluorine-based and phosphate-based surfactants. And silicone oil is preferred. This silicone oil is classified into a type that is simply added (simple addition type) and a type that is cured or reacted (curing reaction type).

In the case of the simple addition type, it is preferable to use a modified silicone oil in order to improve the compatibility with the binder. As modified silicone oil, polyester-modified silicone resin (or silicone-modified polyester resin), acryl-modified silicone resin (or silicone-modified acrylic resin), urethane-modified silicone resin (or silicon-modified urethane resin), cellulose-modified silicone resin (or , A silicon-modified cellulose resin), an alkyd-modified silicone resin (or a silicon-modified alkyd resin), an epoxy-modified silicone resin (or a silicon-modified epoxy resin), and the like.

That is, a polyester-modified silicone resin containing a polysiloxane resin in the main chain and copolymerizing polyester in a block shape, a silicon-modified polyester resin having a dimethylpolysiloxane portion as a side chain bonded to the polyester main chain, and dimethylpolysiloxane. Block copolymers, alternating copolymers, graft copolymers, random copolymers and the like of siloxane and polyester can also be used as modified silicone oil or resin.

In particular, in the present invention, it is preferable to add a polyester-modified silicone resin.

Typical polyester-modified silicone resins include, for example, a block copolymer of a polyester, which is a copolymer of a diol and a dibasic acid or a ring-opening polymer of caprolactone, with dimethylpolysiloxane (both ends or a fragment of dimethylpolysiloxane). Including copolymers whose ends are blocked by the polyester moiety, or conversely, the polyesters are blocked by dimethylpolysiloxane.) Or by bonding the side chain (dimethyl) polysiloxane with the polyester as a main chain. Can be mentioned.

The addition amount of these simple addition type silicone oils cannot be added uniformly because they may prosper in various ways depending on the type, but generally speaking, generally, the amount is usually based on the binder for the image receiving layer. It is 0.5 to 50% by weight, preferably 1 to 20% by weight.

As curing reaction type silicone oil, reaction curing type,
Photo-curing type, catalyst-curing type and the like can be mentioned. As the reaction-curable silicone oil, there is one obtained by reacting and curing an amino-modified silicone oil and an epoxy-modified silicone oil.

As the catalyst-curable or light-curable silicone oil, KS-705F-PS, KS-705F-PS-1, KS-770-P
L-3 [Catalyst-curable silicone oil: manufactured by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.], KS-720, KS-774-PL-3 [Both: photo-curable silicone oil: manufactured by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.]
And the like.

The addition amount of these curable silicone oils is preferably 0.5 to 30% by weight of the binder for the image receiving layer. The release agent layer may be provided on a part of the surface of the image receiving layer by dissolving or dispersing the release agent in an appropriate solvent and applying the resultant, followed by drying.

Next, as antioxidants, JP-A-59-182785,
Examples thereof include antioxidants described in JP-A-60-130735 and JP-A-1-127387, and compounds known as compounds for improving image durability in photographs and other image recording materials.

As the UV absorber and the light stabilizer, JP-A-59-158287
Nos. 63-74686, 63-145089, 59-196292
Nos. 62-229594, 63-122596, 61-283595
And the compounds described in JP-A No. 1-204788 and those known to improve the image durability of photographs and other image recording materials.

Examples of the filler include inorganic fine particles and organic resin particles. Examples of the inorganic fine particles include silica gel, calcium carbonate, titanium oxide, acid clay, activated clay, and alumina.Examples of the organic fine particles include resin such as fluororesin particles, guanamine resin particles, acrylic resin particles, and silicon resin particles. Particles may be mentioned. These inorganic / organic resin particles differ depending on the specific gravity, but are preferably added in an amount of 0.1 to 70% by weight.

Typical examples of pigments include titanium white, calcium carbonate, zinc oxide, barium sulfate, silica, talc,
Clay, kaolin, activated clay, acid clay and the like can be mentioned.

Examples of the plasticizer include phthalate esters (for example, dimethyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, dioctyl phthalate,
Didecyl phthalate, etc.), adipates (dioctyl adipate, methyl lauryl adipate, di-2-ethylhexyl adipate, ethyl lauryl adipate, etc.), other oleates, succinates, maleates , Sebacate esters, citrate esters, epoxystearate epoxys,
Furthermore, phosphate esters such as triphenyl phosphate and tricresyl phosphate, ethyl phthalethyl glycolate,
Glycol esters such as butylphthalylbutyl glycolate and the like can be mentioned.

In addition, in this invention, the addition amount of the whole additive is usually
It is in the range of 0.1 to 50% by weight based on the binder for the image receiving layer.

The image-receiving sheet for heat-sensitive transfer recording is prepared by preparing a coating solution for an image-receiving layer obtained by dispersing or dissolving components forming an image-receiving layer in a solvent, and applying the coating solution for an enhancement layer to the surface of a substrate, It can be manufactured by a drying coating method. Further, it can also be produced by a lamination method or the like in which a mixture having a component for forming the additional layer is melt-extruded and laminated on the surface of a substrate.

Examples of the solvent used for the coating method include conventionally known solvents such as water, alcohol, methyl ethyl ketone, triene, dioxane, and cyclohexanone.

When employing the laminating method, a co-extrusion method can also be employed. The image receiving layer may be formed over the entire surface of the substrate, or may be formed on a part of the surface of the substrate. The thickness of the image receiving layer formed on the surface of the substrate is generally 2 to 50 μm, preferably about 3 to 20 μm.

In the laminate film also serving as the thermal transfer recording image receiving sheet, in order to more effectively prevent the fusion with the ink layer of the thermal transfer recording ink sheet, a release material (the silicone resin, the silicone resin, A release layer containing a modified silicone resin, a silicon oil film or a cured product thereof may be further laminated. The thickness of the release layer is usually from 0.03 to 2.0 μm.

The laminate film also serving as the image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording of the present invention may be provided with a cushion layer between the image-receiving layer and the laminate film. By providing a cushion layer, an image corresponding to image information can be transferred and recorded with good reproducibility with little noise. Examples of the material forming the cushion layer include urethane resin, acrylic resin, ethylene-based resin, butadiene rubber, and epoxy resin. The thickness of the cushion layer is usually 1 to 50 μm, preferably 3 to 30 μm.

To form an image, the ink layer of the thermal transfer recording ink sheet and the image receiving layer of the thermal transfer recording image receiving sheet are overlapped, and thermal energy is applied imagewise to the interface between the ink layer and the image receiving layer. Then, the thermal diffusible dye in the ink layer is vaporized or sublimated by an amount corresponding to the applied thermal energy, and is transferred to the image receiving layer side and received. As a result, an image is formed on the image receiving layer.

A thermal head is generally used as a heat source for applying thermal energy, but other known sources such as a laser beam, an infrared flash, and a hot pen can be used.

When a thermal head is used as a heat source for applying thermal energy, the applied thermal energy can be changed continuously or in multiple steps by modulating the voltage or pulse width applied to the thermal head. When laser light is used as a heat source for applying heat energy, the applied heat energy can be changed by changing the amount of laser light or the irradiation area.

When a laser beam is used, the thermal transfer recording ink sheet and the thermal transfer recording image receiving sheet may be sufficiently adhered to each other.

When an infrared flash lamp is used as a heat source for applying heat energy, the heating may be performed through a colored layer such as black as in the case of using laser light. Alternatively, heating may be performed through a pattern or a halftone pattern that continuously expresses the shading of an image such as black,
In addition, heating may be performed by combining a colored layer such as black on one surface with a negative pattern corresponding to the negative of the above pattern.

The thermal energy may be applied from the ink sheet for thermal transfer recording, from the image receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording, or from both sides.
If priority is given to the effective use of thermal energy, it is desirable to start from the ink sheet for thermal transfer recording.

In the present invention, by sequentially replacing the yellow, magenta, cyan, and heat-meltable ink sheets and performing thermal transfer according to each color, a color face photograph and a character image can be obtained.

The following method is also effective. That is, instead of using the sublimable ink and the hot-melt ink of each color as described above, a method of using a sublimable ink sheet and a hot-melt ink sheet having an area formed by separately coating each color in advance, or one method. There is a method using a method in which the sublimable ink and the heat-meltable ink are separately applied to an ink sheet.

[Operation] In the invention of the ID card according to the first aspect and the invention of the ID booklet according to the second aspect, the printed mount is laminated with a laminate film having an image, so that the surface having an excellent image is protected. Moreover, forgery and falsification are prevented.

Further, by providing a transparent uneven layer on the printed mount, no air bubbles remain between the mount and the laminated film for protecting the surface, so that the surface accuracy is improved.

Furthermore, by laminating a laminate film having an image receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed and a transparent support in advance, the image receiving layer side of the laminate film is attached to the uneven layer side of the backing paper, thereby having excellent compatibility with thermal transfer printing. It is an ID card and ID booklet.

Further, the ID card producing apparatus according to the third aspect has the above-described features in a simple structure using a printing unit for the mount and a laminating unit for bonding the mount and the laminate film.
You can create an ID card.

Further, in the ID booklet creating apparatus according to claim 4, a printing unit on the mount, a booklet assembly unit for assembling a booklet having the mount,
An ID booklet having the above-described characteristics can be created by using a laminate of a booklet mount and a laminate film that is attached to a laminate film.

[Embodiment] Hereinafter, an embodiment of an ID card and a booklet of the present invention and an apparatus for producing the same will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, an ID card and the creation of the ID card will be described with reference to FIGS.

 FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an ID card.

In the figure, an ID card A contains a personal photograph 1 and a name,
Information about the individual such as age, date of birth, address, and affiliation or common matters 2 such as company name, school name, date of issue, etc., and marks 3 for preventing forgery and falsification are provided as appropriate.

 FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the ID card.

This ID card A contains personal information such as name, age, date of birth, address, affiliation, company name, school name,
Common matter 2 such as issue date and mark 3 for preventing forgery and falsification
, A backing sheet 10 on which is printed, a concave and convex layer 11 by printing with a transparent resin ink on the printing side of the backing sheet 10, an image receiving layer 12 on which a mirror image is formed in advance and bonded to the concave and convex layer 11, and a transparent support. 13 and a laminated film 14 having the same.

 FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a method of creating an ID card.

Information such as personal information such as name, age, date of birth, address, and affiliation or common matters 2 such as company name, school name, and issue date and marks 3 for preventing forgery and falsification are printed on the mount 10 in advance. Then, the uneven layer 11 is provided on the printing side of the mount 10 by printing with a transparent resin ink containing no pigment.

On the other hand, a mirror image of the face photograph 1 is previously formed on the image receiving layer 12 of the laminate film 14 comprising the transparent support 13 of the transparent vinyl chloride film and the image receiving layer 12. Image receiving layer 12 on which the image of
And a concavo-convex layer 11 formed by printing with a transparent resin ink containing no pigment on the printing side of the backing paper 10 to create the same.

Next, the creation of the ID booklet and the ID booklet will be described with reference to FIGS.

 FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the ID booklet.

The ID booklet B includes a booklet section 20 composed of a plurality of pages having writable pages and an ID card section 30 recording personal information. As described above, the ID card section 30 contains information about the individual such as the face photograph 1 of the individual, name, age, date of birth, address, affiliation, etc. or common matters 2 such as company name, school name, issue date, and forgery / falsification prevention. Mark 3 is provided as appropriate.

 FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the ID booklet.

The booklet section 20 of the ID booklet B includes a plurality of sheets of paper 21 and a front cover 22 made of synthetic leather. The ID card portion 30 of the ID booklet B is a portion 31 constituting the front cover 22 made of synthetic leather.
And a mount 33 on which an uneven layer 32 for preventing forgery and falsification and remaining air bubbles is printed on the surface, and a laminate film 36 composed of an image receiving layer 34 and a transparent support 35.

 FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a method of creating an ID booklet.

A plurality of sheets of paper 21 are provided on one of the front covers 22 made of synthetic leather, and a mount 33 on which a concavo-convex layer 32 is printed on the other of the front covers 22 to prevent forgery and falsification and to prevent bubbles from remaining is provided. Create a booklet in advance.

Hereinafter, an ID card and an ID booklet producing apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8.

First, on a 200 μm-thick cord paper, a base pattern, forgery, symbols for the purpose of preventing forgery and alteration, a predetermined item column, etc. are offset multicolor printed, and then the transparent ink is printed using a gravure printing apparatus 40 shown in FIG. At a maximum height of 30μm, pitch 200
A concavo-convex pattern having an average roughness of 10 μm was printed on the surface. The gravure printing apparatus 40 constitutes a printing unit that provides a concavo-convex layer by printing with transparent resin ink on a printing side of a mount on which characters, figures, and symbols have been printed in advance.

In the gravure printing apparatus 40, the mount 42 is supplied to the impression cylinder 43 from the feeder 41, and the ink stored in the ink van 44 is printed on the mount 42 from the plate cylinder 435. This printed mount 42
Is transported from a paper collecting cylinder 46 by a transport mechanism 47, and the mount 42 is dried by a drying heater 48 and a cool air nozzle 49, and stored in a box 50 as a printed product.

 The ink formulations used for printing this mount are shown below.

Polyvinyl chloride 24 parts [TK-600, manufactured by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., degree of polymerization 600] Vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer 12 parts [S-REC A manufactured by Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.] Methyl ethyl ketone 60 parts When creating an ID booklet Then, the backing after printing was bonded to the back surface of the booklet covering the synthetic leather.

Next, printing on a laminated film and creation of an ID booklet by a thermal transfer method were performed by an ID booklet creation apparatus shown in FIG.

That is, first, a 100 μm-thick vinyl chloride transparent film main roll 60 is unwound, and a face photograph is placed on a laminate film 61 in a thermal transfer printing section 62 with a sublimation type ink ribbon loaded in a ribbon cassette 63, and positioned with characters composed of personal information. The mark was printed with a molten ink ribbon loaded in the ribbon cassette 64.

Next, a method for preparing a laminate film having the image receiving layer and a method for preparing an ink ribbon will be described.

That is, an image receiving layer having a thickness of 5 μm and having the following formulation was provided on one surface of the vinyl chloride film.

Coating solution for forming image receiving layer 4 parts of vinyl isobutyl ether copolymer (BASF, Laroflex-MP60) 5 parts of vinyl chloride resin [TK-600, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., polymerization degree 600] Polyester modified silicone resin 0.5 part [Shin-Etsu Silicon Co., Ltd., X-24-8300] Triphenyl phosphate (plasticizer) 0.5 part Methyl ethyl ketone 40 parts On the other surface of the vinyl chloride film, a thickness of 0.1 μm
m, and a roll-shaped image receiving sheet / laminate was prepared. On the other hand, a sublimation type ink ribbon was prepared by the following procedure.

As a transparent support for this laminated film, a thickness of 6
μm polyethylene terephthalate film [Toray Co., Ltd. on a corona-treated surface, an ink layer forming coating liquid of the following composition, by a wire bar coating method,
It was applied so as to have a thickness of 1 μm after drying, dried, and a back surface treatment coat was performed on the back surface that had not been subjected to corona treatment with silicone oil [X-41, 4003A manufactured by Shin-Etsu Silicon Co., Ltd.]. Next, a coating liquid for forming an ink layer of three colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow was prepared, and coating was performed sequentially with a gravure roll to obtain a cut sublimation type thermal transfer ink ribbon.

Cyan ink layer forming coating liquid Disperse dye 4 parts [Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd., Kayaset Blue 136] polyvinyl butyral 5 parts [Polymerization degree 1700, manufactured by Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd., trade name ESLEC BX-1] Methyl ethyl ketone 90 Part Cyclohexanone 5 parts Coating liquid for magenta ink layer formation Magenta disperse dye (CIDisperse Red6
Other than using 0), it is the same as the cyan ink.

Coating solution for yellow ink layer formation As a dye, Macrolex Yellow 6G, manufactured by Bayer AG, C.I.
Other than using I. Disperse Yellow 201), it is the same as cyan ink.

Next, a fusion type ink ribbon was prepared by the method described below.

That is, the surface of the same polyester film and the sublimation type ink ribbon, by a gravure coating method peeling layer ink in solid content criteria at a rate of 1 g / m ² of the following composition, coating and dried release layer Formed.

Ink for release layer Acrylic resin 20 parts Methyl ethyl ketone 100 parts Toluene 100 parts Next, the following ink is applied and dried by gravure coating so that the coating amount is about 3 g / m ² on the surface of the release layer, and then hot-melted. A hydrophilic ink layer was formed and cut to prepare a hot-melt type thermal transfer ribbon.

Heat-meltable ink Acrylic / vinyl chloride / vinyl acetate copolymer resin 20 parts Carbon black 10 parts Toluene 35 parts Methyl ethyl ketone 35 parts By a thermal transfer method, a part of the laminated film 62 having an image receiving layer, a face photograph and personal information , A positioning mark is printed. A booklet assembling unit disposed after the printing unit 62
At 65, the booklet parts 67 supplied by the suction cups 66 are assembled, and further superimposed on the ID card part of the booklet, punched out, and then temporarily laminated automatically by the laminating part 68 by partial lamination.

The temporarily integrated ID booklet is conveyed to the heat roller 69 of the laminating section 68, and after being laminated, the cooling fan 70
And is discharged to the extraction unit 71.

The frame of the laminated film after the punching is removed, and the laminated film is wound around the waste material winding section 72 which is freely formed into a magazine.

The ID booklet thus created is beautiful with no air bubbles left between the mount and the laminate film.

Further, in the ID card producing apparatus, the booklet assembling section shown in FIG. 8 is unnecessary, and after the laminating film is overlaid on the backing paper in the laminating section, punching is performed, and then similarly, the parts are automatically integrated by partial lamination.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the ID card according to the first aspect and the ID booklet according to the second aspect, the surface having an excellent image is protected by the laminate film, and the forgery and falsification are prevented. In addition, since no air bubbles remain between the printed backing sheet and the laminate film for protecting the surface, the product is excellent in flatness and has excellent compatibility with thermal transfer printing. In addition, by forming an image on a relatively thin laminate film, it is possible to create the image easily and quickly and easily, as compared with a case where an image is formed on a backing paper.

Further, an ID card creation device according to claim 3 and a claim 4.
The ID booklet creation device described has a simple structure
Cards and ID booklets can be created.

[Brief description of the drawings]

1 to 3 show an ID card and the preparation of the ID card, FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the ID card, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the ID card, and FIG. 3 shows a method of preparing the ID card. FIGS. 4 to 6 show the creation of an ID booklet and an ID booklet, and FIG.
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the ID booklet, FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the ID booklet, and FIG. 6 is an ID booklet.
FIGS. 7 and 8 are schematic views showing an ID card and an ID booklet producing apparatus. In the figure, A is an ID card, B is an ID booklet, 1 is a face photograph, 2 is a common matter, 3 is a mark, 10 is a mount, 11 is an uneven layer, 12 is an image receiving layer, 13 is a transparent support, and 14 is a laminate. Film, 30
An ID card section, 40 is a gravure printing apparatus, 62 is a thermal transfer printing section, 65 is a booklet assembling section, and 68 is a laminating section.

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Claims (4)

(57) [Claims] An image receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance is formed by printing characters, figures, symbols, etc. on a mount in advance, forming an uneven layer on the print side of the mount with a transparent resin ink by printing. An ID card comprising a laminated film having a body and an image receiving layer side bonded to an uneven layer side of a mount. 2. An ID booklet comprising the ID card according to claim 1. 3. A printing section for providing a concavo-convex layer by printing with transparent resin ink on a printing side of a backing on which characters, figures and symbols have been printed in advance, an image receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance, and a transparent support. An ID card producing apparatus, comprising: a laminating section for laminating a laminate film having a body and an image receiving layer side to an uneven layer side of a mount. 4. A printing section for providing an uneven layer by printing with a transparent resin ink on a printing side of a mount on which characters, figures and symbols have been printed in advance, a booklet assembling section for assembling a booklet having the mount, An ID booklet producing apparatus, comprising: a laminating unit for laminating a laminate film having an image receiving layer on which a mirror image is formed and a transparent support, with the image receiving layer side being attached to the uneven layer side of the mount.