JPH04179591A - Id card and id booklet as well as its manufacturing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To protect a surface where a sharp image is present and also prevent forgery and alteration by printing characters, figures and symbols on a mount, then providing an uneven layer using a transparent ink and bonding laminated film with an image-receiving layer where a mirror image is formed to the other laminated film. CONSTITUTION:Information relative to an individual or common matter 2 and a mark 3 for forgery and alteration prevention are previously printed on a mount 10. Then an uneven layer 11 is provided on the printed side of this mount 10 using a transparent resin ink which does not contain pigment. On the other hand, a laminated film 14 consists of a transparent support 13 of transparent vinylchloride film and an image-receiving layer 12, and a face photograph image of a mirror image is previously formed on the image-receiving layer 12. The image-receiving layer 12 of the laminated film 14 where the face photograph 1 image is formed is attached to the uneven layer 11 formed by printing process on the printed side of the mount 10 using a transparent resin ink which does not contain pigment.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION C. Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to an ID card and an ID booklet whose surfaces have a protected face photograph, characters, etc., and an apparatus for producing the same.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, ID cards and ID booklets on which various personal information such as a face photo, address, name of affiliation, personal code number, etc. are formed, such as driver's license and credit card, have been used. , employee ID, student ID, alien registration card, passport, etc.

Methods for creating these include, for example, pasting a cut-out photograph of a person's face on a mount with personal information written on it, or directly photographing the photograph and text and printing it onto photographic paper.

Although these ID carts and ID booklets function well under normal usage, for example, if they are lost, they may be altered by pasting a photo on them, forged without going through the official creation route, or misused. There are cases where this happens, causing social problems.

For this reason, in the past, when creating ID carts and ID booklets, special efforts have been made, such as putting a stamp on facial photographs. In recent years, instead of this, it has become common to record image information on color photographic paper or the like, and to laminate the image recording surface of this color photographic paper.

As described above, ID carts and ID booklets are now widely created by laminating color photographic paper, etc., but in many cases the creation still relies on manual labor, placing an extremely heavy burden on the creators. However, there was a problem in that it took a long time to issue the certificate, and the applicant had to wait for a long time.

In contrast, a method has come to be used in which image information such as a facial photograph is printed on image-receiving paper such as a cart using, for example, a sublimation-type thermal transfer method, and then bonded to a laminate film.

[Invention or Problem to be Solved] As mentioned above, when printing with a thermal transfer method, the burden on the creator and the time required for publication are significantly reduced compared to when printing with photographic paper. There was a problem.

Specifically, one problem is that when printing using a thermal transfer method, when printing onto a mount (transferring material) by heating it with a thermal head, etc., it is difficult to make close contact with a platen roller, etc., and it is difficult to obtain sufficient transfer density. was there. The second problem is that the quality of the image is greatly affected by the smoothness of the object to be transferred, resulting in a very low level of image quality.

As a means to solve the above problem, JP-A-2-147
As described in No. 266, there is a method in which image information is printed on a laminate film provided with an image-receiving layer using a sublimation type thermal transfer method, and character information is printed using a melting type thermal transfer method. remains,
There is no close contact between the laminate film and the image forming layer, and the ID
There may be a quality problem with the cart and ID booklet.

Normally, when laminating, there is a known method to prevent the generation of air bubbles by creating unevenness on the laminate film side, but if you try to properly print on the laminate film side using a thermal transfer method as described above, the unevenness will become uneven. As a result, the quality of printing of images and the like by the dye sublimation method and the quality of printing of character images by the melting method deteriorate due to the poor smoothness of the image receiving surface, resulting in a new problem.

This invention has been made in view of these points, and the first object of the invention is to protect a surface having an excellent image,
Furthermore, TD carts and IDs are prevented from being forged and tampered with.
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a booklet and a device for creating the booklet.

A second object of the present invention is to provide an ID cart, an ID booklet, and an apparatus for producing the same, in which no air bubbles remain between the printed mount and the laminate film that protects the surface.

Furthermore, a third object of the present invention is to provide a 10 cart, an ID booklet, and an apparatus for producing the same, which have excellent suitability for thermal transfer printing.

[Means for solving the problem] In order to solve the problem, claim 1 = I of the self-claimed invention
D-cards are made by printing characters, figures, symbols, etc. on a mount in advance, adding a concavo-convex layer to the printed side of the mount by printing with transparent resin ink, and then forming an image-receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance and a transparent support. It is characterized in that it is constructed by laminating a laminate film having the image-receiving layer side to the uneven layer side of the mount.

Further, the ID booklet according to claim 2 is an ID booklet according to claim 1.
It is characterized by having a D card.

Further, the ID cart making device according to claim 3 includes a printing section that provides a printing surface with a concavo-convex layer by printing with transparent resin ink on a mount board on which characters, figures, and symbols are printed in advance, on the printing side thereof;
It is characterized by having a laminate part in which a laminate film having an image-receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance and a transparent support is laminated with the image-receiving layer side on the uneven layer side of the mount.

Furthermore, the ID booklet creation device according to claim 4 includes a printing section that provides a printed uneven layer with transparent resin ink on the printing side of a mount on which characters, figures, and symbols are printed in advance, and a booklet having the mount. and a laminate section that laminates 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 on the uneven layer side of the mount. It is said that

In the ID card and ID booklet of the present invention, after characters, figures, symbols, etc. are printed on the mount in advance, an uneven layer is provided by printing with a transparent resin ink without colorant.

The mount used in this invention does not need to function as an image-receiving sheet support, so a wide variety of materials can be used. Eachi, plain or coated paper made from cellulose, baryta paper, polyolefin-coated paper, synthetic paper (
Materials whose main components are polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, etc., with fine voids inside, materials with an opaque layer made of pigment and binder installed on a transparent film paste, or composite materials made by laminating these materials with paper or plastic film. ), TiO2, JaS
A white polyethylene terephthalate film containing Oa, etc., a white polystyrene base, a vinyl chloride-based film with excellent moldability for embossing, etc., a composite material of the various films mentioned above, or a material for the outermost cover for booklets. Synthetic leather, natural leather, other resins, and composite materials made by laminating the above materials for the mount can be used.

In this invention, the method of printing the transparent resin ink containing no colorants such as pigments and dyes on the mount is not particularly limited, but gravure printing, intaglio printing, embossing printing, etc. are preferable.

The resin ink used in this invention is not particularly limited as long as it is a transparent ink containing a vehicle and an auxiliary agent that do not contain colorants such as pigments or dyes, but the resin in the vehicle used in this invention For gravure printing, natural resins such as shellac, rosin, rosin-modified maleic acid, nitrified cotton, cellulose acetate, polyamide, chlorinated rubber and their conductors, polyolefin resins, ethylene-acrylic acid copolymers, ethylene - Synthetic resins such as acrylic ester copolymers, vinyl chloride, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, chlorinated polypropylene, acrylics, urethanes, and isocyanates can be used. Furthermore, for intaglio printing, synthetic drying oil, resin face, etc. are used. Further, the auxiliary agents used in the present invention include drying control agents such as phenolic compounds and film control agents such as silicone compounds and waxes.

As a method of embossing printing that can be used in this invention, there is a thermoplastic object called an embograph or a half, which is printed with letterpress or offset, and then powder is sprinkled on it while the ink is still wet to remove the excess. The powder is then sucked out, leaving only the undried ink area. Thereafter, the powdered thermoplastic resin is melted by heating with a heater and glued onto the ink to create a relief state. Spraying, suction, heating, and cooling units are installed on an endless metal bed, and once undried printed material is placed in the first part, it will flow automatically. There are several types of powder with different particles, and if you use one with large particles, the maximum
．． It is possible to raise it up to about 10 mm. Also, the resin becomes transparent after heating, making it difficult to see the underlying color.

In this invention, characters, figures, symbols, etc. are printed on the mount in advance, and then printed with transparent resin ink without colorants such as pigments and dyes, so that the average roughness of the center surface of the uneven surface is 0.
．． Preferably from 5 to 50 μm, i.e. 0.5 μm
If it is less than m, air may not be sufficiently removed during lamination, resulting in air bubbles. Furthermore, if the thickness exceeds 50 μm, it becomes difficult to form an uneven layer using printing methods, and when laminated, character images tend to bleed, resulting in poor image quality, and unevenness may appear on the surface after lamination. There's a problem.

The center surface average roughness in this invention is based on the following definition. That is, a part with an area S is extracted from the center plane of the roughness curved surface, the axis perpendicular to the center plane of this extracted part is set as the Z axis, and the roughness curved surface is defined as Z=f (X, Y).
When expressed as , the center surface average roughness (SRa
) is given.

However, the measurement of the center surface average roughness (SRa) of the LY LX -SM hot melt layer is as follows:
This can be done as follows. That is, using a 3D roughness analyzer 5PA-11, Surf Kneader 5E-308, and 3D controller AK-11 manufactured by Kosaka Laboratory Co., Ltd., roughness was measured at a pitch of 10 μm in an area of 5 mr + i' with a diamond needle of 4 μm diameter. Measure curved surfaces.

At this time, the cutoff value (λC) is set to 0.8 mm, and the feed speed is set to 0.5 mm/see.

In this invention, a laminate film on which mirror image images and characters are formed in advance is used. This laminate film has a transparent support and an image-receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance.As a method for forming an image and characters on the same laminate film, for example, a face, etc. It is advantageous to form the image information using a sublimation type heat-sensitive transfer method, and to form the character information consisting of various personal information such as address, affiliation, name, personal coat number, expiration date, etc. using a melt-type heat-sensitive transfer method.

The laminate film used in this invention may be, for example, a transparent film of about 50 to 100 .mu.m made of polyester, polyolefin, vinyl chloride resin, etc., on which an image-receiving layer is formed. Alternatively, a self-supporting image-receiving layer such as vinyl chloride resin which also serves as an image-receiving layer can also be used.

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

Examples of heat-diffusible dyes include cyan dyes, magenta dyes, and yellow dyes.

As the cyan dye, JP-A-59-7896 and JP-A-59-7896
-227948, 60-24966, 60-5
No. 3563, No. 60-130735, No. 60-131
No. 292, No. 60-239289, No. fil-193
No. 96, fil-22993, fil-61-31292
No. 61-31467, No. 61-35994, No. 61-49893, No. 61-148269, No. 62
- No. 191191, No. 63-91288, No. 63-9
Examples include naphthoquinone dyes, anthraquinone dyes, and azomethine dyes described in publications such as No. 1287 and No. 63-290793.

Examples of magenta dyes include JP-A Nos. 59-78896, 60-30392, 50-30394, and 60-
No. 253595, No. 61-262190, No. 63-5
Examples include anthraquinone dyes, azo dyes, azomethine dyes, etc., which are described in publications such as No. 992, No. 63-205288, No. 54-159, and No. 61-1394.

Examples of yellow dyes include JP-A No. 59-78896, JP-A No. 80-27594, fiO-3+5 [i0, JP-A No. 6]
No. 0-53565, No. 61-12394, No. 63-1
Examples include methine dyes, azo dyes, quinophthalone dyes, and anthrisothiazole dyes described in publications such as No. 22594.

Particularly preferred as the thermodiffusible dye is p-tsh having a closed type or closed type active methylene group.
Azomethine dyes obtained by coupling reaction with oxidized products of phenylenediamine derivatives or oxidized products of p-aminephenol derivatives and oxidized products of phenol or naphthol derivatives, oxidized products of p-phenylenediamine derivatives, or oxidized products of p-aminephenol derivatives. It is an indoaniline dye obtained by a coupling reaction with an oxidant.

The heat-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 monochromatic.

Furthermore, depending on the tone of the image to be formed, it may contain two or more of the above two types of dyes or other heat-diffusible dyes.

The amount of heat-diffusible dye used is usually 1 rr of support. The amount is preferably 0.2 to 5 g per 0.1 to 20 g.

As a binder, ethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, ethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose,
Cellulose resins such as hydroxypropyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate;
Polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl formal, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyester, polyvinyl acetate, polyacrylamide, polyvinyl acetoacetal, styrene resin, styrene copolymer resin, polyacrylic ester, polyacrylic acid, acrylic acid copolymer, etc. Examples include vinyl resins, rubber resins, ionomer resins, and olefin resins.

Among these resins, polyvinyl butyral, polyvinyl acetoacetal, or cellulose resins, which have excellent acid resistance, are preferred.

The above-mentioned various binders can be used alone or in combination of two or more. The weight ratio of the binder and the heat diffusible dye is 1.1.
The ratio is preferably from 0 to 10·1, and particularly preferably from 2:8 to 8:2.

Furthermore, various additives can be added to the ink layer within a range that does not impede the object of the invention. The additives include silicone resin, siliconoyl (reactive curing type is also possible), silicone modified resin, fluororesin, surfactant and peeling compounds such as waxes, fine metal powder,
Examples include fillers such as silica gel, metal oxides, carbon black, and fine resin powder, curing agents that can react with binder components (for example, radiation active compounds such as isocyanates, acrylics, and epoxies), and the like.

Further, as additives, there may be mentioned melting substances for promoting transfer, such as waxes, higher fatty acid esters, and other compounds described in JP-A-59-108997.

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

The thickness of the transparent support is preferably 2 to 10 μm, and the support has a subbing layer for the purpose of improving adhesion with the binder and preventing transfer and dyeing of the dye to the support. You can.

Furthermore, on the back side of the transparent support (the side opposite to the ink layer),
An anti-sticking layer may be provided for the purpose of preventing the head from fusing, sticking, or wrinkling the transparent support. The thickness of this anti-sticking layer is usually 01 to 1 μm.

An ink sheet for thermal transfer recording is prepared by preparing a coating liquid for forming an ink layer by dispersing or dissolving various components forming the ink layer in a solvent, and coating this on the surface of a transparent support.
It can be manufactured by drying. Note that one or more binders are used by dissolving them in a solvent or dispersing them in a latex form.

As a solvent, water, alcohols (e.g. ethanol,
propatool), cellosolves (e.g. methyl cellosolve, ethyl cellosolve), aromatics (e.g. toluene, shikilene, chlorhenzene), ketones (e.g. acetone, methyl ethyl ketone), ester solvents (e.g. ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, etc.), ethers (eg, tetrahydrofuran, dioxane), chlorinated solvents (eg, chloroform, trichlorethylene), and the like. The above-mentioned coating method includes a coating method using a conventionally known gravure roll for sequential coating, an extrusion coating method, a wire bar coating method,
A roll coating method or the like can be adopted.

The ink for forming the hot-melt ink layer used in the present invention comprises a colorant and a vehicle, and may further contain various additives as necessary. The colorant is preferably an organic or inorganic pigment or dye that has good properties as a recording material, such as one that has sufficient color density and does not change color due to light, heat, temperature, etc.

Further, it may be a substance that is colorless when not heated, but develops color when heated, or a substance that develops color when it comes into contact with something coated on the transfer target. In addition to the colorants forming cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, colorants of various other colors can also be used.

The vehicle is mainly composed of wax, and mixtures of wax with drying oil, resin, mineral oil, cellulose, rubber conductors, etc. are used.

Representative examples of wax include microcrystalline wax, carnauba wax, paraffin wax, and the like. Furthermore, various waxes such as Fischer-Tropsch wax, various low molecular weight polyethylenes, wood wax, beeswax, spermaceti wax, privet wax, wool wax, ceramic wax, candelilla wax, petrolatum, partially modified wax, fatty acid ester, fatty acid amide, etc. are used. It will be done.

Furthermore, a thermally conductive substance can be blended into the hot-melt ink in order to provide the hot-melt ink layer with good thermal conductivity and melt transferability. Examples of this substance include carbonaceous substances such as carbon black, aluminum, copper, tin oxide, and molybdenum disulfide. Methods for directly or indirectly forming a heat-melting ink layer on a base film include:
Outside of hot melt coat, hot lacquer coat, gravure coat, gravure reverse coat, roll coat,
There are many other methods of applying the ink. The thickness of the ink layer formed is determined to balance the required density and thermal sensitivity, and is 0.
．． It is in the range of 1 to 30 μm, preferably in the range of 1 to 20 μm.

In this invention, a surface layer can be further formed on the ink layer. This surface layer forms a part of the transfer film and forms the surface in contact with the transfer paper, sealing the printed area of the transfer paper during transfer, preventing scratches, and covering the ink layer. It has the function of improving adhesion to transfer paper.

The wax used to form the surface layer is the same substance as the wax used in the hot-melt ink layer described above.

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 further applying and drying an aqueous dispersion containing the wax particles.

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

It is recommended that an appropriate amount of extender pigment be added to the surface layer. This is because bleeding and trailing of printed characters can be further prevented.

The image-receiving layer that can be used in the present invention can be formed from an image-receiving layer binder and various additives. Note that, depending on the case, the image-receiving layer may be formed only from the binder.

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

Can the various resins mentioned above be newly synthesized and used?
Commercially available products can also be used. For example, commercially available polyester resins include Byron 200, Byron 290,
Byron 600 etc. [all manufactured by Toyobo Co., Ltd.],
KA-1038C [manufactured by Arakawa Chemical Co., Ltd., TP2
20, TP235 [all manufactured by Nippon Gosei Co., Ltd.], and the like.

The vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer has a vinyl chloride component content of 50 to 100% by weight and a polymerization degree of 50 to 2.
A value of about 500 is preferable.

The vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer is not necessarily limited to a copolymer consisting only of a vinyl chloride component and a vinyl acetate component, but may also contain a vinyl alcohol component, a maleic acid component, etc. within a range that does not impede the purpose of the present invention. It may include.

Examples of such vinyl chloride-acetic acid copolymers include S-LEC A1 S-LEC C1 S-LEC M [manufactured by Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.], Vinyrite VACH, Vinylyte VYHH, Vinylyte VMCH, and Vinylyte VYH.
D, Vinylite VYLF, Vinylite VYNS, Vinylite VMCC, Vinylite YMCA, Vinylite VA
CD1 Vinylite VERR, Vinylite VROH (manufactured by Union Carbide), Denka Vinyl 1゜00G
K T, Denkabinir 100OL, Denkabiru 1
000CK, Denkabinir 100OA, Denkabinir I
QOOLK2, Denkabinir 100OA S, Denkabinir 100100O, Denkabinir 100OCS K,
Denkabinir 100OCS, Denkabinir 2 (11)
OG K, Denkabinir 100OG SK, Denkabinir 100OG S, Denkabinir 1000LT3,
Denkabinir 100OD, Denkabinir 100OW [
Commercially available products such as those manufactured by Denki Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd. are mentioned above.

In any case, from the viewpoint of physical properties, other resins for the image-receiving layer are preferably resins with a Tg of -20 to 150°C, and more preferably resins with a Tg of 40 to 120°C. Furthermore, the binder for the image receiving layer has a molecular weight of 2,000 to 10
Preferably it is 0.000.

If the various resins have reactive active sites, the reactive active sites may be utilized, or if there are no reactive active sites, such reactive sites may be added, and crosslinking or curing may be performed using radiation, heat, moisture catalysts, or the like. In that case, a crosslinking agent such as a radiation active polymer such as epoxy or acrylic or an isocyanate may 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. Furthermore, a plasticizer or the like may be added as a sensitizer. The release agent can improve the releasability between the ink sheet for thermal transfer recording and the image receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording.

Such release agents include silicone oil (including what is called silicone resin); solid waxes such as polyethylene wax, amide wax, and Teflon powder; fluorine-based and phosphate-based surfactants, etc. Among them, silicone oil is preferred. There are two types of silicone oil: a type that is added to Hayabusa (simple addition type) and a type that is cured or reacted (curing reaction type).

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

Specifically, polyester-modified silicone resin containing polysiloxane resin in the main chain and copolymerized with polyester in block form, silicone-modified polyester resin having dimethylpolysiloxane moiety as a side chain bonded to the polyester main chain, and dimethylpolyester resin. Professional combination of siloxane and polyester! Polymer copolymers, alternating copolymers, graft copolymers, random copolymers, etc. can also be used as modified silicone oils or resins.

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

Typical polyester-modified silicone resins include, for example, a copolymer of diol and dibasic acid, or a block copolymer of polyester, which is a ring-opening polymer of caprolactone, and dimethylpolysiloxane (both ends or one end of dimethylpolysiloxane). (Contains a copolymer in which the terminal end is blocked with the polyester moiety, or conversely, the polyester is blocked with dimethylpolysiloxane.), or the polyester is the main chain and the side! j
A copolymer formed by bonding I(dimethyl)polysiloxane can be mentioned.

The amount of these simple addition type silicone oils cannot be determined uniformly because the amount may vary depending on the type of silicone oil, but in the case of boat fishing, it is usually The amount is 0.5 to 50% by weight, preferably 1 to 20% by weight.

Examples of curing reaction type silicone oils include reaction curing types, photo curing types, catalyst curing types, etc.Reaction curing type silicone oils include those obtained by reaction curing amino-modified silicone oil and epoxy-modified silicone oil. be.

In addition, as catalyst curing type or photo curing type silicone oil, KS-705F-PS, KS-705F-PS-
1. KS-770-PL-3 [all catalyst curing silicone oils: manufactured by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.], KS-720
, KS-774-PL-3 [all photocurable silicone oils: manufactured by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.], and the like.

The amount of these curable silicone oils added is preferably 0.5 to 30% by weight of the binder for the image-receiving layer. Note that a release agent layer can also be provided on a part of the surface of the image-receiving layer by dissolving or dispersing the above-mentioned release agent in a suitable solvent and applying the solution, followed by drying.

Next, as an antioxidant, JP-A-59-182785
No. 60-130735, JP 1-127387
Examples of antioxidants and compounds known to improve image durability in photographs and other image recording materials can be mentioned.

As UV absorbers and light stabilizers, JP-A-59-158
No. 287, No. 63-74686, No. 63-14508
No. 9, No. 59-196292, No. 62-229594
No. 63-122596, No. 61-283595, and JP-A No. 1-204788, as well as compounds known to improve image durability in photographs and other image recording materials.

Examples of the filler include inorganic fine particles and organic resin particles. These inorganic fine particles include silica gel,
Calcium carbonate, titanium oxide, acid clay, activated clay, alumina, etc. can be mentioned, and organic fine particles include fluororesin particles, guanamine resin particles, acrylic resin particles,
Examples include resin particles such as silicone resin particles.

These inorganic/organic resin particles vary depending on their specific gravity, but
It is preferable to add 0.01 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.

Examples of plasticizers include phthalate esters (e.g. dimethyl phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, dioctyl phthalate, didecyl phthalate, etc.), adipate esters (dioctyl adipate, methyl lauryl adipate, di-2-ethylhexyl adipate, ethyl lauryl adipate, etc.), other oleic acid esters, succinic acid esters, maleic acid esters, sepatic acid esters, citric acid esters, epoxy stearate, triphenyl phosphate, tricresyl phosphate, etc. and glycol esters such as ethyl phthalethyl glycolate and butyl phthalbutyl glycolate.

In the present invention, the total amount of additives added is usually in the range of 0.1 to 5% by weight based on the binder for the image-receiving layer.

Image-receiving sheets for thermal transfer recording are prepared by preparing a coating solution for the image-receiving layer by dispersing or dissolving the components forming the image-receiving layer in a solvent, applying the coating solution for the image-receiving layer to the surface of the base material, and drying. It can be manufactured using a coating method. It can also be produced by a lamination method, etc., in which a mixture containing the components forming the image-receiving layer is melt-extruded and laminated onto the surface of a base material.

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

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

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

Further, in the laminate film of the present invention which also serves as an image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording, a cushion layer may be provided between the laminate film and the image-receiving layer. By providing a cushion layer, it is possible to transfer and record an image corresponding to image information with good reproducibility with less noise. Examples of the material constituting the cushion layer include urethane resin, acrylic resin, ethylene 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 ink sheet for thermal transfer G8 recording and the image receiving layer of the image receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording are overlapped, and thermal energy is applied to the interface between the ink layer and the image receiving layer. Then, the heat-diffusible dye in the ink layer vaporizes or sublimates in an amount corresponding to the applied thermal energy, and is received in six lines on the image-receiving layer side. As a result, an image is formed on the image receiving layer.

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

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

When using a laser beam, it is preferable to bring the ink sheet for thermal transfer recording and the image-receiving sheet for thermal transfer recording into close contact with each other.

When using an infrared flash lamp as a heat source for providing thermal energy, heating is preferably 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 halftone dot pattern that continuously expresses the shading of an image such as black, or a colored layer such as black on the negative side and a negative pattern corresponding to the negative of the above pattern. Heating may be performed in combination.

Thermal energy may be applied from the ink sheet side for thermal transfer recording, from the image receiving sheet side for thermal transfer recording, or from both sides, but if priority is given to effective use of thermal energy, , it is desirable to perform this from the ink sheet side for thermal transfer recording.

In this invention, by sequentially replacing yellow, magenta, cyan, and heat-melting ink sheets and performing thermal transfer according to each color, color facial photographs and character images can be obtained.

The following method is also effective. That is, instead of using sublimation ink and heat-melt ink of each color as described above, a method of using a sublimation ink sheet and a heat-melt ink sheet having areas pre-painted in each color and a heat-melt ink sheet, or a method of using a single one. There is a method in which an ink sheet is coated with the sublimation ink and the heat-melting ink separately.

[Function] In the invention of the ID card according to claim 1 and the invention of the ID booklet according to claim 2, the printed mount is laminated with a laminate film having an image, so that the surface having the excellent image is protected. Moreover, forgery and falsification are prevented.

In addition, by providing a transparent uneven layer on the printed mount,
Surface accuracy is improved because no air bubbles remain between the mount and the laminate film that protects the surface.

Furthermore, by bonding the image-receiving layer side of the laminate film, which has a transparent support and an image-receiving layer on which a mirror image has been formed in advance, to the uneven layer side of the mount, it has excellent compatibility with thermal transfer printing. It has an ID cart and an ID booklet.

Moreover, in the ID cart production apparatus of the third aspect, an ID cart having the above-mentioned characteristics can be produced with a simple structure using a printing section for a mount and a laminate section for bonding the mount and a laminate film.

The ID booklet creation device according to claim 4 further includes: a printing section for printing on a mount; a booklet assembly section for assembling a booklet having the mount;
An ID booklet having the above-mentioned characteristics can be created by using a laminate section for pasting together a booklet mount and a laminate film.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of an ID cart, a booklet, and an apparatus for creating the same according to the present invention will be described based on the accompanying drawings.

First, creation of an ID cart and an ID card will be explained based on FIGS. 1 to 3.

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

In the figure, ID card A includes an individual's face photo l, name,
Common information 2 such as personal information such as age, date of birth, address, and affiliation, or company name, school name, and date of issue, and a mark 3 to prevent forgery and alteration are provided as appropriate.

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

This ID card A is a mount on which personal information such as name, age, date of birth, address, and affiliation, or common information 2 such as company name, school name, and date of issue, and a mark 3 to prevent forgery and alteration are printed. 10, an uneven layer 11 by printing with transparent resin ink on the printing side of this mount 10, and this uneven layer 11.
an image receiving layer 1 on which a mirror image is formed in advance;
2 and a transparent support 13
It is composed of.

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

Personal information such as name, age, date of birth, address, and affiliation, or common information 2 such as company name, school name, and date of issue, and a mark 3 to prevent forgery and alteration are printed on the mount 10 in advance. Then, an 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 facial photograph 1 is formed on the image-receiving layer 12 of a laminate film 14 consisting of a transparent support 13 made of transparent vinyl chloride film and an image-receiving layer 12 in advance. It is created by bonding together an image-receiving layer 12 on which an image is formed and an uneven layer 11 formed on the print side of a mount 10 by printing with a transparent resin ink containing no pigment.

Next, based on Figures 4 to 6, the ID booklet and ID
Explain how to create a booklet.

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

The 10-book booklet consists of a booklet section 20 consisting of a number of writable pages, and an ID card section 30 on which personal information is recorded. As described above, this ID cart section 30 includes personal information such as an individual's face photo 1, name, age, date of birth, address, affiliation, etc., or common information 2 such as company name, school name, date of issue, etc., and counterfeit/alteration prevention. Mark 3 is provided as appropriate.

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

The booklet portion 20 of the ID booklet B is composed of a plurality of sheets of paper 21 and a front cover 22 made of synthetic leather. Also, ID booklet B
The ID car 8 part 30 includes a part 31 constituting the front cover 22 made of synthetic leather, a mount 33 on which a concave-convex layer 32 is printed on the surface to prevent predetermined counterfeiting and falsification and to prevent air bubbles from remaining, and an image-receiving layer. 34 and a laminate film 36 consisting of 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 placed on one side of a front cover 22 made of synthetic leather.
A mount 3 is provided on the other side of the front cover 22 with an uneven layer 32 printed thereon to prevent forgery and alteration and to prevent air bubbles from remaining.
3 and create a booklet in advance.

Hereinafter, the ID, cart, and ID booklet creation device of the present invention will be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8.

First, a base pattern, symbols to prevent counterfeiting and alteration, predetermined items, etc. are printed in multiple colors on a coated paper with a thickness of 200 μm, and then the gravure printing device 40 shown in FIG.
An uneven pattern with a maximum height of 30 μm, a pitch of 200 μm, and an average center surface roughness of 10 μm was printed using transparent ink. This gravure printing device 40 constitutes a printing section in which an uneven layer is formed by printing with transparent resin ink on the printing side of a mount paper on which characters, figures, and symbols are printed in advance.

This gravure printing device 40 includes a tweeter 41 to a mount 42.
is supplied to the impression cylinder 43, and the ink stored in the ink pan 44 is printed on the mounting paper 42 from the plate cylinder 45. The printed mount 42 is transported from the paper storage cylinder 46 by a transport mechanism 47, and the mount 42 is connected to a drying heater 48 and a cold air nozzle 4.
Dry processed by 9 and box 50 as a printed product
is stored in.

The ink formulation used to print this mount is shown below.

Polyvinyl chloride 24 parts [Tit-800 manufactured by Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., degree of polymerization 6001 Vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer 12 parts [S-LEC A manufactured by Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.] Methyl ethyl ketone 60 parts When creating an ID booklet Next, the printed mount was attached to the back of the cover of a booklet covering synthetic leather.

Next, printing on a laminate film using a thermal transfer method and creating an ID booklet were performed using an ID booklet creating apparatus shown in FIG.

That is, first, a 100-μm-thick vinyl chloride transparent film original roll 60 is taken out, and a facial photograph is printed on a laminate film and a ribbon cassette 63 in a heat-sensitive transfer printing section 62.
Characters consisting of personal information and positioning marks were printed using a melt-type ink ribbon loaded into a ribbon cassette 64 using a sublimation type ink ribbon loaded into the ribbon cassette 64.

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

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

Coating liquid for forming image-receiving layer: 4 parts vinyl chloride-isobutyl ether copolymer (BA
SF Co., Ltd., Laroflex-MP60) Vinyl chloride resin 5 parts [Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., TK-500, degree of polymerization 600] Polyester modified silicone resin 0.5 parts [Shin-Etsu Silicon Co., Ltd., X-24-8300] Triphenyl phosphate (plasticizer) 0.51i11 (methyl ethyl ketone 40 parts) A transparent antistatic layer with a thickness of 0.1 μm was provided on the other side of the vinyl chloride film to create a roll-shaped image receiving sheet and laminate film. - On the other hand, a sublimation ink ribbon was prepared according to the procedure shown below.

The transparent support for this laminate film has a thickness of 6 μm.
Polyethylene terephthalate film [manufactured by Toshi Co., Ltd.] On the corona-treated surface, apply a coating liquid for forming an ink layer with the following composition by wire bar coating method to a thickness of 1 μm after drying, and dry. At the same time, silicone oil (back treatment coated with X-41,400383, manufactured by Shin-Etsu Silicon Co., Ltd.) was applied to the back side that had not been corona treated. Next, coating liquids for forming ink layers in three colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow were prepared, and coating was carried out surface-sequentially using a gravure roll to obtain a cut ink ribbon for sublimation type thermal transfer.

Coating liquid for cyan ink layer formation Disperse dye 4 parts [manufactured by Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd., Kayaset Blue 13ε] Polyvinyl butyral 5 parts [polymerization degree 1700
, manufactured by Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd., product name Kosuretsuku aX-1
] Methyl ethyl ketone 90 parts Cyclohexanone 5 parts Magenta disperse dye (C, 1Dispers
The ink was the same as the cyan ink except that eRed601 was used.

As a heavy industry liquid dye for forming a yellow ink layer, Macrolex Yellow 6G,
Manufactured by Bayer, C, 1, Disperse Yellow
The ink was the same as the cyan ink except that ow 201) was used.

Next, a melt-type ink ribbon was created by the method shown below.

That is, on the surface of a polyester film similar to the above-mentioned sublimation ink ribbon, a release layer ink having the following composition is applied at a rate of 1 g/rn' based on solid content by a gravure coating method and dried to form a release layer. was formed.

Ink for release layer Acrylic resin 20 parts Methyl ethyl ketone 100 parts Toluene
100 copies Next, the following ink was applied to the surface of the release layer using a gravure coating method at a coating amount of about 3 g/rn' and dried to form a hot-melt ink layer, and cut to form a hot-melt type. A thermal transfer ribbon was created.

Hot melt ink Acrylic/vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate copolymer resin
2
0 parts carbon black 10 parts toluene 35 parts methyl ethyl ketone 35 parts A face photograph, personal information, and a positioning mark are printed on a part of the laminate film 62 having the image-receiving layer by a thermal transfer method. In the booklet assembly section 65 located after the printing section 62,
The booklet parts 67 supplied by the suction cup 66 are assembled, further overlapped with the ID card part of the booklet and then punched out, and then temporarily integrated by automatic partial lamination in the laminating part 68.

This temporarily integrated ID booklet is conveyed to a heat roller 69 of a laminating section 68, laminated, cooled by a cooling fan 70, and discharged to a take-out section 71.

After punching, the frame of the laminate film is removed and freely wound into a magazine-shaped waste material winding section 72.

The ID booklet created in this manner is beautiful with no air bubbles remaining between the mount and the laminated film.

In addition, the ID card production apparatus does not require the booklet assembly section shown in FIG. 8, and the laminate section stacks the laminate film on the mount and punches it out, after which it is automatically integrated by partial lamination in the same way.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, the method according to claim 1! In the D-cart and the ID booklet according to claim 2, the surface having an excellent image is protected by a laminate film, and furthermore, forgery and tampering are prevented. In addition, since no air bubbles remain between the printed mount and the laminate film that protects the surface, the product has excellent flatness and is highly compatible with thermal transfer printing. Moreover, by forming an image on a relatively thin laminate film, transportation and positioning are easier, and the image can be produced quickly and simply, compared to the case where an image is formed on a mount.

Further, the 10-cart creating device according to claims 3 to 8 and the ID booklet creating device according to claim 4 can create the above-mentioned ID cart and ID booklet with a simple structure.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figures 1 to 3 show an ID card and the creation of this ID card, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the ID card, and Figure 2 is an ID card.
A sectional view of the cart, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the method of creating an ID card, FIGS. 4 to 6 show an ID booklet and the creation of the ID booklet, FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the ID booklet, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the ID booklet, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a method of creating an ID booklet, and FIGS. 7 and 8 are schematic diagrams of an ID card and an ID booklet creation device. In the figure, A is an ID card, B is an ID booklet, 1 is a face photo,
2 is a common item, 3 is a mark, 10 is a mount, 11 is an uneven layer, 12 is an image receiving layer, 13 is a transparent support, 14 is a laminate film, 30 is an ID card section, 40 is a gramia printing device, 62 is a thermal transfer 65 is a printing section, 65 is a booklet assembly section, and 68 is a laminating section. Patent Applicant Konica Corporation Figure 1 Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An image-receiving layer in which characters, figures, symbols, etc. are printed in advance on a mount, a concavo-convex layer is printed on the printing side of the mount with transparent resin ink, and a mirror image is formed in advance. An ID card characterized in that it is constructed by laminating a laminate film having a transparent support and an image-receiving layer side to the uneven layer side of a mount. 2. An ID booklet comprising the ID card according to claim 1. 3. A printing section in which an uneven layer is formed by printing with transparent resin ink on the printing side of a mount board on which characters, figures, and symbols are printed in advance, an image receiving layer on which a mirror image is formed in advance, and a transparent support. An ID card production device comprising: a laminate section for laminating a laminate film with its image-receiving layer side to the uneven layer side of a mount. 4. A printing section that forms a concave and convex layer by printing with transparent resin ink on the printing side of a mount on which characters, figures, and symbols are printed in advance, a booklet assembly section that assembles a booklet with this mount, and a mirror image image that is pre-printed. 1. An ID booklet production device comprising: a laminate portion for laminating a laminate film having an image receiving layer formed thereon and a transparent support, the image receiving layer side of the laminate film to the uneven layer side of a mount.