EP1703885A2 - Sicherheitselement für sicherheitspapiere und wertdokumente - Google Patents
Sicherheitselement für sicherheitspapiere und wertdokumenteInfo
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- the invention relates to a security element for security papers and documents of value, such as banknotes, passports, cards, identification documents or the like, with at least one color-coded latent image, the color-coded latent image having different image components.
- the invention further relates to a security paper and a value document with such a security element.
- Security paper is understood below to mean paper that e.g. is already equipped with security features, such as watermarks, security threads, hologram patches, etc., but is still workable and is an intermediate product in the production of the value document.
- the document of value is understood to be the fit product, e.g. the printed banknote.
- Valuable documents such as banknotes, shares, bonds, certificates, vouchers, checks, high-quality admission tickets, but also other documents that are subject to counterfeiting, such as passports, cards or other identification documents, are equipped with various security features to increase their security against counterfeiting.
- a security document can also be equipped with security features by printing on security paper.
- passport documents as an example, it can be clarified that a series of value documents can be equipped with identical security features through the process of printing.
- any value document can also be used be provided with an individual security feature.
- a series of passports can e.g. B. be equipped with a single, ie identical picture motif everywhere, but at the same time be individualized.
- the term "individualization" of the passports refers to the equipment of each individual passport with an individual picture, e.g. a portrait of the holder.
- Printing processes based on additive color mixing as well as subtractive color mixing are generally suitable for printing on security paper.
- offset printing gravure printing or thermal transfer printing
- colored halftone prints are produced in which the color shades are reproduced using dot patterns.
- the color impression is created by a subtractive and additive color mixture of three basic colors, namely cyan, magenta and yellow.
- the pigments in the printing inks absorb the complementary portion of their own color from the incident white light. The non-absorbed part of the white light is reflected, reaches the eye of the beholder and creates a color impression there, which is perceived as the inherent color of the respective printing color.
- Each of the primary colors thus reflects only part of the incident light. Since the 100% mixture of the printing inks cyan, magenta and yellow does not result in black but in dark brown, almost all printers use black as an additional color (kidney color printing).
- images are created exclusively by additive color mixing. Every point on the television tube represents a small light source that shines in a special color. If, as is the case with the TN tube, for example, three areas of the visible spectrum are selected as colored light sources that cover the entire area of the visible If the spectrum is distributed and the corresponding color receptors are able to stimulate the eye (e.g. red, green, blue-violet), it is possible to create images with realistic color representation by means of additive color mixing.
- DE 101 36252 describes a colored halftone image which has at least two types of pixels of different colors arranged in a grid. These different colors contain additional fluorescent pigments. Three different printing inks are preferably used, the pigments of the different printing faxes each fluorescing in one of three primary colors (for example red, green, blue violet) and thus producing an additive color mixture.
- a personal document can e.g. B. can be secured by providing a portrait of the document holder, which is printed as a halftone image with normal printing inks, while a second portrait is provided, which is produced by additive color mixing from pigmented printing ink fluorescent under UV light. These two images can be placed next to each other on the document.
- US Pat. No. 6,155,168 also describes a personal document which comprises a visually visible photo portrait and a photo portrait which has been printed with UV-fluorescent inks.
- the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a security element which avoids the disadvantages of the prior art.
- the security against counterfeiting of security papers and value documents is to be improved.
- a security paper, a value document, the use of security elements for the production of security paper and a method for the production of printed surfaces are the subject of the subordinate claims.
- Advantageous developments of the invention are the subject of the dependent claims.
- the invention is based on the finding that the security against forgery of security papers and value documents can be improved by security elements which have a color-coded latent image with different image components.
- the present invention therefore relates to a security element for security paper and documents of value, such as banknotes, passports, cards, identification documents or the like, the security element having a color-coded latent image with different image components.
- latent image is understood to mean an image that is not visually or at least very poorly perceptible under normal lighting, while it is visually visible using special technical aids such as lighting with a UV or IR light source.
- a latent image can therefore only be observed in the desired color if it is irradiated with the appropriate wavelength of electromagnetic radiation.
- the color of the latent image changes when irradiation with light of different wavelengths takes place, for example on the one hand with visible light and on the other hand with ultraviolet light.
- different structures can be represented on a security paper, which are alternately visible depending on the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation used for the illumination.
- normal or “normal” lighting is used in the following, this means lighting with natural or artificial light in the visible wavelength range. Will by. an illumination with a UV light source spoken, so an additional illumination with UV light is meant. B. the use of a UV lamp in daylight.
- An “image” is generally understood to mean visually and / or machine-readable information. This includes both photorealistic representations as well as line motifs, i.e. abstract representations.
- photorealistic representations are portraits (e.g. of a head of state), landscape motifs, animal motifs and buildings. Due to the increased image information, a photorealistic representation leads to a significantly improved identification or recognizability for the viewer.
- Abstract representations are e.g. B. coat of arms, buildings, flags, patterns, characters and codes, all of which can be provided both in perspective and in a flat representation.
- a luminescent substance is understood to mean a chemical compound which is able to emit luminescent light when excited with light.
- Luminescent substances can absorb light in a wavelength range from ultraviolet (UV) to the visible (VIS) to the infrared (IR) range. The emission can see the Stoke 'or follow Anti-Stoke's law.
- IR absorber is understood to mean a chemical compound which has at least one absorption with a high absorption coefficient in the infrared spectral range between 800 nm and a few ⁇ m, such as ADS 880 MC (C32H 2 8S 4 Ni) from Siber Hegner, absorption maximum at 880 nm.
- the luminescence is usually divided into fluorescence and phosphorescence, the underlying physical process being the same, namely the emission of electromagnetic radiation at the
- Fluorescence is characterized by a lifetime of the excited state in the range from picoseconds to microseconds, while one speaks of phosphorescence with a lifetime in the millisecond range and longer.
- the aim is that the color of the motifs under UV light largely corresponds to the color of a color photo of the depicted object.
- the portraits of the respective holder attached to passport documents should reproduce the color information of the usual passport photo as accurately as possible.
- Abstract motifs are strikingly displayed in multi-colored luminescent lines.
- the luminescent colors of the individual elements should correspond to the basic color of the original. The multicolor improves the identification and recognizability for the viewer.
- any text can be printed with different luminescent compounds or colors. When illuminated with UV light, the individual letters appear differently colored.
- the same text can e.g. B. can also be printed several times, each using different luminescent compounds. The text then appears several times in a different color under a UV source. If, as described below, the use of luminescent compounds is combined with the use of printing inks that are already visually perceptible under normal lighting, z. B. shadow effects. For this, z.
- any text can be printed with the help of luminescent compounds and the identical text then slightly offset with normal printing inks. Under UV lighting, the luminescent text then appears as the "shadow" of the normally printed text.
- a further example is text or individual letters or figures, some of which are printed with luminescent compounds and some of which are printed with normal printing inks. With normal lighting, only fragments of the text, letters or figures can be seen, which are then completely visible under UV lighting.
- a color-coded latent image with different image components can be generated in a particularly simple and inexpensive manner by using luminescent substances and / or IR absorbers.
- luminescent and IR absorbers have the property that they are not visually or at least very poorly perceptible under normal lighting, while they are visually perceivable when illuminated with a UV light source or when illuminated with an IR light source Picture result.
- the different parts of the image in the color-coded latent image can be made by different luminescent compounds, by different IR absorbers or are formed by mixing luminescent compounds and IR absorbers.
- the absorption maxima of the IR absorbers advantageously differ by at least 20 nm.
- the individual colors can be nik known control instruments such.
- the security elements of the present invention make the forgery of documents of value significantly more difficult.
- the complexity of the color systems, the need for a suitable color management system and suitable trade fair equipment for the quality check of the print significantly increases the hurdle for potential counterfeiters.
- the production of color separations using reproduction technology is extremely complex and requires a lot of experience as well as technical equipment for implementation by a potential counterfeiter.
- the different image components of the security element are formed by at least three fluorescent substances, the fluorescent substances either being able to be excited to fluoresce at a wavelength of 254 nm or else at a wavelength of 254 nm and at a wavelength of 366 nm can be excited to fluorescence.
- the different image portions of the security element are formed by at least three fluorescent substances, at least one of the fluorescent substances being excited to fluoresce at a wavelength of 366 nm and 254 nm can and in addition at least one of the fluorescent substances can only be excited to fluoresce at a wavelength of 254 nm.
- a combination of three fluorescent substances can be mentioned as an example of this embodiment, the blue-emitting substance being excitable both at 254 nm and 366 nm, while the yellow or red-emitting substances can only be excited at 254 nm.
- a blue emission is then only generated by the commonly used excitation sources which emit UV radiation with a wavelength of 366 nm. If, on the other hand, a UV source that can be switched to 254 nm is used, the security element can be recognized as a colored motif, which is composed of the emission of the colors red, yellow and blue. This significantly increases the security against counterfeiting.
- luminescent compounds which are used in printing inks for producing the color-coded latent images according to the invention are:
- Bi-fluorescent substances CD-R / GL from Honeywell / Seelze yellow emission after excitation with short-wave UN light (254 nm) red emission after excitation with long-wave UV light (366 nm)
- R / G CD770 from Honeywell / Seelze orange emission after excitation with short-wave UV light (254 nm) green-yellowish emission after excitation with long-wave UV light (366 nm)
- IR-emitting luminescent substances IR-CD 139 from Honeywell / Seelze: Emission in the near IR after excitation with UV light
- Green UC2 from Honeywell / Seelze green emission in the VIS range after excitation with IR light Red UC6 from Honeywell / Seelze: red emission in the VIS range after excitation with IR light Blue UC6 from Honeywell / Seelze: blue emission in the VIS range after excitation with IR light
- Luminescent or fluorescent substances from Honeywell / Seelze
- CD 380 red emission after excitation with short- or long-wave UV light
- CD 145 red emission after excitation with short-wave UV light
- CD 797 green-yellowish emission after excitation with short- or long-wave UV light
- CD 112 green emission after excitation with short-wave UV light
- CD 329 blue emission after excitation with short- or long-wave UV light
- CD 165 blue emission after excitation with short-wave UV light
- IR absorbers which are used in printing inks for producing the color-coded latent images according to the invention are: ADS 880 MC (C 3 2H28S4Ni), absorption maximum at 880 nm from Siber Hegner.
- the security element is formed by three fluorescent substances and an IR absorber.
- the fluorescence of the visually invisible substances can be detected with the aid of a UV hand lamp or a UV / IR scanner, while the IR absorption z. B. can be determined by an IR converter camera.
- a comparison of the image data from the fluorescence or IR measurement represents an excellent test of the authenticity of the value document.
- the different image parts of the color-coded latent image are formed by phosphorescent substances, or one or more fluorescent substances are replaced by phosphorescent substances in the security element, or one or more phosphorescent substances are additionally present.
- the different afterglow is not visible to the naked eye, but it can be seen using a sensor. Re-enactment using only fluorescent substances can be easily distinguished from the original.
- the combination of fluorescence and phosphorescence thus integrates a further verifiable security feature that cannot be recognized with a simple UV lamp and visual control with the naked eye, but only by using an appropriate sensor.
- Special effects can be achieved if the different image parts of the color-coded latent image are formed by bi-fluorescent substances or if at least one bi-fluorescent substance is additionally used in the security element. These compounds fluoresce when exposed to radiation of different wavelengths in different colors. Depending on the radiation used to illuminate the color-coded latent image, a different image is obtained, depending on the color in which the bi-fluorescent substance glows. Depending on the wavelength used for the irradiation, color changes and also changes in the motif can be achieved.
- a portrait picture is printed with three different fluorescent substances.
- substance 1 and substance 2 emit yellow light
- substance 3 yellow-greenish light When irradiated with short-wave light, fabric 1 emits red light, fabric 2 blue light and fabric 3 yellow-greenish light.
- the portrait image When irradiated with long-wave UV light, which is usually emitted by simple UN hand lamps, the portrait image appears monochrome to the viewer, while when excited with short-wave light, the multicolored image, ideally that of a color photograph, is visible. It is also possible to use substances in which the reverse effect is visible, that is to say a multicolored luminescent image is visible when irradiated with long-wave UN light and a monochrome luminescent image is visible with short-wave UN light.
- the image portions of the security element are formed by at least three IR absorbers, the IR Absorbers have absorption maxima that differ by at least 20 nm. The difference is preferably at least 50 nm, particularly preferably at least 100 nm.
- the combination of a substance with an absorption maximum at 800 nm, a substance with an absorption maximum at 900 nm and a substance with an absorption maximum at 1000 nm can be mentioned as an example of the embodiment described.
- the amount of each substance present and thus its absorption intensity corresponds to the intensity of one of the primary colors blue, red and green. So z. B. the substance with absorption maximum at 800 nm contains the image data for the blue separation, the substance with absorption maximum at 900 nm contains the image data for the red separation and the substance with absorption maximum at 1000 nm contains the image data for the green separation.
- a scanner with three scanning units or edge filters for the separation of the image data and a downstream image processing program converts the information into an easily interpretable color image, such as B. a portrait processed.
- the security element additionally contains at least one color that is visually visible under normal lighting.
- one or more fluorescent substances can be combined with one or more visually visible substances.
- An example is the use of three different substances, z. B. a substance appears red in visible light and at the same time fluoresces red under UV light. Another substance fluoresces yellow under UV light and appears white in visible light, while the third substance fluoresces blue under UV light and also appears white in visible light.
- a visually visible color is used as a contour (for example as a line drawing) for the visually invisible fluorescent substance ( en) serves.
- the visually visible colors and the fluorescent substances are printed in register with each other.
- black e.g. for a portrait
- the portion printed with visually visible color is converted by software into the portion of the color required for a true color representation in the luminescent image, and a corresponding true color image is then generated by calculation.
- grayscale image that is printed in register with one or more fluorescent substances that are invisible under normal lighting.
- the grayscale image corresponds to the information "paper white” or the negative extract of one or more fluorescent substances.
- a latent image is made visible using a UV hand lamp, scanner or CCD camera.
- Security elements that additionally contain magnetic substances and / or electrically conductive substances are particularly preferred. These additional feature substances on the one hand increase the security against counterfeiting and on the other hand provide a further possibility for coding information. If the security element is printed on using an InkJet, the magnetic substances and the electrically conductive substances consist of particles that have an average size in the nanometer range.
- one or more fluorescent compounds can also be replaced by a color that is already visible under normal lighting and can be printed to match the image information of the fluorescent substances.
- the visualization is carried out by means of a scanner / CCD camera, the proof is carried out with the help of a downstream image processing software.
- the respective image portion of the security element is prepared for printing by means of software processing of the corresponding image information.
- the proportions of luminescent substances to be used are determined by means of a color management system and optionally printed in a grid, preferably a bar and honeycomb grid, with negative contour lines. In the case of striking picture elements in particular, negative contour lines can achieve an increased contrast and thus an improved and faster picture or motif recognition.
- the image or the image information can be verified after printing using IR converter cameras or scanners.
- various value documents such as passport documents, are additionally equipped with an individual security feature.
- a series of passports can e.g. B. with an identical picture motif and at the same time with the portrait of the respective owner.
- the security elements according to the invention are suitable for both types of security features, that is to say both for the elements which are identical in a series of documents and for individual images when personalizing documents.
- fluorescent substances can be pre-printed in offset printing or other non-impact processes in a specific area of the security paper or value document.
- Personalization that is accurate in the register e.g. by an inkjet printer
- the individual security element e.g. B. a single or multi-colored portrait, visible.
- the combination of the different printing processes results in increased protection against counterfeiting.
- thin stripes lying next to each other can be printed in the fluorescent colors red, green and blue on a series of passport documents and then partially overprinted with a black and white portrait of the passport holder.
- the black color of the portrait has the property of absorbing the fluorescent radiation emitted by the strips under UV lighting. Under normal lighting conditions, only the black and white portrait is visible; when irradiated with UV light, the fluorescent stripes can only be seen in the areas where no black color is printed.
- a UV-absorbing, invisible color could also be used. In this case, no information would be recognizable in normal light. When illuminated with UV radiation, in turn, only fluorescent strips would be recognizable only in the areas in which the UV-absorbing color was not printed.
- the information printed with UV-absorbing ink would be recognizable as a negative in the fluorescent stripe pattern.
- the red, green and blue fluorescent stripes are designed so narrow that the eye no longer resolves the individual stripes, but instead perceives a monochrome, preferably white area due to additive color mixing.
- a substance that absorbs in the spectral range of the fluorescent colors is printed on using raster technology.
- the raster element size can now be used to control which fluorescent color component is absorbed and which penetrates to the eye.
- a raster element that appears white under UV lighting is thus completely absorber-free, while an element that appears black in the image is completely overprinted. Accordingly, depending on which stripes are covered with the absorber or not, the corresponding mixed colors result for the eye.
- the viewer sees a fluorescent real color image, the black part of which was generated by printing an absorber into suitable raster elements.
- a surface is completely printed with luminescent substances.
- This area is then, for example, overprinted with a portrait of the passport holder with ink, which absorbs in the area of the emission of the luminescent substance.
- UV light you can see, for example, yellow fluorescence in the non-overprinted edge area, while in the portrait area fluorescence is only perceptible where no printing color is used. Under UV light you can see a negative, fluorescent portrait.
- the invention also encompasses a document of value, such as a banknote, a share, a check, a passport, an identification document, a visa, an ID card, in particular paper-based, or the like, which has a security element of the type described.
- a document of value such as a banknote, a share, a check, a passport, an identification document, a visa, an ID card, in particular paper-based, or the like, which has a security element of the type described.
- the invention also includes the use of security elements for the production of security paper, the security elements having a color-coded latent image with different image components.
- the invention also encompasses a security paper, the security paper having at least one security element with a color-coded latent image with different image components.
- the present invention also includes a method for producing surfaces printed with luminescent substances and / or IR absorbers, in particular for producing printed security papers and documents of value, by means of a screen printing method, the screen printing method being a bar screen printing method or a honeycomb screen printing method is.
- bar raster printing methods as well as honeycomb raster printing methods are suitable for printing color-coded latent images with different image components in all the variants described above.
- the different image components of the color-coded latent image are formed by fluorescent substances, by phosphorescent substances, by bi-fluorescent substances, by IR absorbers or by a combination of these substances.
- the type and intensity of the visually perceived mixed color are controlled via the luminous surfaces of the individual colors.
- the mixed color changes depending on the intensity of the individual colors.
- a square grid structure is particularly preferred, the square being divided into three equally large strip-shaped sections.
- the type and intensity of the visually perceived mixed color are controlled via the luminous surfaces of the individual colors.
- the mixed color perceived by the viewer also changes here depending on the intensity of the individual colors.
- the intensity of the individual coloring and thus the visually visible color impression, i.e. the mixed color results from the different area coverage of the individual colors in the honeycomb.
- Grid widths of 20, 36 or 60 lines per cm are preferably used.
- the width and height of a grid cell is preferably 0.5 mm and less, preferably 0.2 mm and less.
- the bar and honeycomb screen printing methods according to the invention can advantageously be used to additionally print at least one color that is visually visible under normal lighting, additionally borrowed at least one magnetic substance and / or additionally at least one electrically conductive substances.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view of a passport document according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention in a schematic representation under normal lighting
- FIG. 2 is a plan view of the passport document shown in FIG. 1 with additional lighting with a UN light source
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of a passport document 10 according to an embodiment of the invention when illuminated with daylight.
- the north side of the passport document 10 contains a passport photo 12 of the holder printed with normal printing inks, as well as further personalized information 14a to 14f in machine-readable form, which includes the name 14a of the holder, an identification number 14b, the place of issue 14c, the date of birth of the holder 14d, the date of issue of the passport document 14e and the validity period of the passport document 14f.
- Fig. 2 shows the passport document shown in Fig. 1 with additional illumination with a UV light source.
- a further portrait 22 of the passport holder is visible, which is printed on the passport document with fluorescent substances.
- three luminescent substances each emitting in one of three primary colors (e.g. red, green, blue violet)
- a largely lifelike image of the passport photo 12 of the holder can be generated.
- the correspondence between passport photo 12 and fluorescent portrait 22 is an easily verifiable feature for the authenticity of the document and significantly increases the security against forgery.
- 3a shows a grid cell of the bar grid, the cell preferably having a rectangular shape, very preferably a square shape.
- the cell is divided into three equally large, strip-shaped sections (22, 23, 24), to which three differently luminescent colored areas are assigned and preferably fluoresce red / blue or yellow.
- the cell shown in FIG. 3a provides the color impression white when printed over the entire surface.
- 3b also shows a grid cell of a bar grid, with the strip-shaped sections 22, 23 and 24 being only partially printed here. Depending on the area and intensity of the luminescent substance, a corresponding mixed color results for the eye looking at it.
- 3c shows a bar grid cell in which the sections 22, 23 and 24 are not printed and thus provide the color impression black for the eye.
- FIG. 4a A grid cell of the honeycomb grid is shown in FIG. 4a.
- a cell preferably appears like the two-dimensional image of a cuboid, very particularly preferably like the two-dimensional image of a cube, from each of which three sides are visible.
- These three sides 32, 33, 34 can be seen analogously to the strip-shaped sections 22, 23 and 24 in FIGS. 3a to 3c.
- the surfaces 32, 33 and 34 are again filled over the entire surface with three different luminescent substances, so that under UV light for the human eye with additive color mixing, the impression of a white cell results.
- FIG. 4b shows the same cell, the areas that take up the different luminescent substances turn out to be of different sizes and thus produce a mixed color under UV light.
- the honeycomb grid cell is not printed, so that it produces the color impression black for the human eye under UV light.
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