EP3980273A1 - Optisch variables sicherheitselement mit mehrfarbigem reflektivem flächenbereich - Google Patents
Optisch variables sicherheitselement mit mehrfarbigem reflektivem flächenbereichInfo
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Definitions
- the invention relates to an optically variable security element with a multicolored reflective surface area for protecting valuables.
- the invention also concerns a method for producing such a security element and a data carrier equipped with such a security element.
- Data carriers such as value or identity documents, but also other objects of value such as branded items, are often provided with security elements for protection that allow the authenticity of the data carrier to be checked and at the same time serve as protection against unauthorized reproduction.
- the security elements can for example be in the form of a security thread embedded in a bank note, a cover film for a bank note with a hole, an applied security strip, a self-supporting transfer element or also in the form of a feature area printed directly on a value document.
- Security elements with a viewing angle-dependent or three-dimensional appearance play a special role in securing authenticity, since these cannot be reproduced even with the most modern copiers.
- the security elements are equipped with optically variable elements which give the viewer a different picture impression from different viewing angles and, for example, show a different color or brightness impression and / or a different graphic motif depending on the viewing angle.
- movement effects, pump effects, depth effects or flip effects are described as optically variable effects, which are implemented with the aid of holograms, microlenses or micromirrors.
- a security element with magnetically alignable magnetic pigments is known from the publication WO 2015/078572 A1.
- the publication EP 3 254 863 A1 relates to a security element with a printed color layer which, in addition to first pigments, also comprises second pigments which are designed as magnetic pigments.
- the invention is based on the object of further increasing the counterfeit security and the visual attractiveness of generic optically variable security elements and in particular providing optically variable security elements with two or more different appearances or effects in different colors.
- the invention contains an optically variable security element with a multicolored reflective surface area which can be used in particular to protect valuable objects.
- the area of the security element defines a plane and a z-axis perpendicular to it.
- the multicolored reflective surface area contains two optically variable reflection structures which are arranged at different height levels in the z-direction and which produce a different color impression in reflection.
- the higher-lying reflective structure is formed by a relief structure provided with a color coating, while the lower-lying one Reflection structure is formed by a layer with platelet-shaped, reflective effect pigments, which are spatially aligned.
- the two reflection structures overlap in an overlap area and the color coating of the higher-lying reflection structure has at least one recess in the overlap area, in which the lower-lying reflection structure appears when the security element is viewed.
- the mentioned overlap can be partial or complete, so one of the reflection structures can also completely cover the other reflection structure and the two reflection structures can even be designed to be congruent.
- the mentioned overlap relates to the relative lateral position of the reflection structures in the plane defined by the areal extent of the security element.
- the viewer then first looks at the layer with the platelet-shaped, reflective effect pigments, and in areas in which this layer is translucent or has recesses, also at the relief structure provided with the color coating.
- the platelet-shaped effect pigments are formed with particular advantage by a magnetic field orientable platelet-shaped magnetic pigments, but they can also be platelet-shaped effect pigments that are other fields, for example electric fields, can be aligned.
- This alignability in magnetic or other fields is a property of the effect pigments per se.
- magnetic pigments can be influenced by an external magnetic field and can also be aligned in a mobile state.
- the effect pigments are already aligned and immobilized, that is, their alignment is fixed.
- the aligned effect pigments do not just lie flat in the plane of the surface area, but are at least partially tilted towards this plane and are therefore spatially aligned.
- the alignment is determined in particular by the inclination angle and azimuth angle of the effect pigments. Due to the alignment with the aid of an external field, the alignment of the individual effect pigments cannot be freely selected. Rather, the orientation of the effect pigments is not individual and, in particular, depends on the field. The field dependency requires, for example, that an alignment difference between adjacent effect pigments corresponds to the maximum possible field change in this distance, that is to say is rather small.
- the maximum alignment difference of jointly aligned, adjacent effect pigments is less than 30 degrees, preferably less than 20 degrees, for both angles.
- Metallized pigments in particular aluminum- or silver-coated pigments, are preferably used as effect pigments.
- Pigments with a thin-film coating especially color-shifting pigments or aluminum pigments with a coloring coating produced by wet-chemical precipitation processes, are also possible.
- reflective metal pigments preferably aluminum pigments, with a translucent color coating, or pigments with a color coating formed by structural colors, in particular by nano and binary structures.
- the flake-form effect pigments advantageously have a ratio of the largest to the smallest diameter (diameter-to-thickness ratio) that is more than 5: 1, preferably more than 10: 1, and particularly preferably more than 15: 1 or even more than 50: 1 amounts.
- the largest diameter of the flake-form effect pigments is preferably between 5 mm and 35 mm, preferably between 15 mm and 25 mm or between 8 mm and 12 mm.
- flake-form effect pigments for example, the particles and pigments described in the publications EP 1 689586 B1, WO 2010/069823 A1 and WO 2013/090983 A1 come into consideration.
- the effect pigments are expediently in a printing layer with a transparent or translucent binder.
- the binding agent can also be colored in order to produce an additional color effect in the security element.
- the relief structure of the higher-lying reflection structure is formed by a micromirror arrangement with directed micromirrors, in particular with plane mirrors, concave mirrors and / or Fresnel-like mirrors.
- the orientation (angle of inclination and azimuth angle) of the micromirrors of the relief structure can be freely selected for each micromirror.
- the micromirrors are aligned independently of one another, in particular aligned by means of embossing.
- a maximum (or average) alignment difference between neighboring micromirrors is - for one or for both angles - greater than 90 degrees.
- Neighboring micromirrors of the relief structure differ in their alignment, in particular in the angle of inclination and in the azimuth angle.
- the lateral dimensions of the micromirrors are advantageously below 20 mm, preferably below 10 mm.
- other relief structures can also Ren, in particular embossed Fresnel lenses, concave mirrors, hologram structures, nanostructures or diffractive blazed gratings can be used.
- the relief structure of the higher-lying reflection structure is advantageously shaped in a transparent or translucent embossed lacquer layer, in particular embossed in this embossed lacquer layer.
- the embossing lacquer layer can also be colored in order to produce an additional color effect in the security element.
- the color coating of the higher-lying reflection structure is designed as a regular or irregular grid with grid elements and grid spaces.
- the grid spaces represent the above-mentioned cutouts.
- the dimensions of the grid elements and / or grid spaces in this variant are at least in one direction below 140 mm.
- the dimensions of the grid elements and / or grid spaces even in one or both lateral directions are preferably below 140 mm, preferably between 20 mm and 100 mm, in particular between 20 mm and 60 mm.
- the grid elements and grid spaces of the grid have the same shape and preferably also the same size.
- the grid elements and / or the grid spaces can in particular be formed by strip-shaped, square, triangular or other polygonal elements, but can also have irregular shapes.
- the grid itself can be regular, that is to say have a regular arrangement of grid elements and grid spaces, but can also be an irregular grid, for example a stochastic grid, in which the grid elements and / or grid spaces have irregular spacings and / or sizes and / or shapes.
- the area coverage of the grid by the grid elements is advantageously between 30% and 70%, preferably between 40% and 60%, in particular around 50%.
- the color coating is advantageously applied in subregions that have lateral dimensions of more than 140 mm, and / or the color coating is produced with cutouts that have lateral dimensions of more than 140 mm mm.
- the surface areas surrounding the applied partial areas represent the above-mentioned recesses of the color coating.
- the lateral dimensions of at least one partial area and / or at least one recess are preferably more than 250 mm, preferably more than 500 mm and in particular more than 1 mm .
- the color coating of the relief structure mentioned is formed in an advantageous configuration by means of translucent colors.
- Metallizations for example made of aluminum, silver or an alloy such as copper and aluminum, can also be used, as do thin-film structures, in particular color-changing thin-film structures, gold-blue or silicon-aluminum thin layers.
- the color coating can also be formed by translucent colors with a deposited metallic mirror coating, for example made of aluminum.
- the color coating can represent a translucent image of several translucent colors, which is backed with a mirror coating, for example made of aluminum.
- Luminescent inks in particular fluorescent inks with a metallic coating, can also be used as color coatings.
- the color coating can also be through structural colors, in particular through nano and binary structural tures, be formed, which are embossed on or in the micromirrors of a micromirror arrangement.
- nanoparticle inks can also be used as color coatings, such as gold-blue particles, various effect pigments, color-changing pigments or super silver.
- the different height levels in which the two reflection structures are arranged advantageously have a spacing between 5 mm and 100 mm, preferably between 10 mm and 50 mm, in the z direction.
- the small vertical distance between the two reflection structures cannot be perceived when viewing the security element.
- the height level of a relief structure is given by the base area of the relief structure, for example a micromirror embossing.
- the level of aligned effect pigments is given by the middle position of the pigments tilted relative to the plane of the surface area.
- the exact definition of the height level is usually not important, since different height levels can be implemented in a simple manner, for example, in that the two reflection structures are on opposite sides of a carrier film, or that the two reflection structures are on top of one another on the same Side of a carrier film.
- the two reflection structures of the reflective surface area advantageously provide a color change for an unchanged motif depending on the viewing angle, or provide a color change together with a motif change.
- the motifs of the two reflection structures can vary in particular in terms of shape (for example head, apple or tails), movement (static too moved or moved too static, with linear, rotating and / or pumping movement) and / or dimensionality (2D closed 3D, or differently three-dimensional with positively or negatively curved Appearance or floating in front of or behind a plane) of the motif.
- the higher-lying reflective structure generates a first motif with a first color impression that is visible from a first viewing angle range and the lower-lying reflective structure generates a second motif with a second, different color impression that is visible from a second Viewing angle range is visible, wherein the first and second viewing angle range do not overlap.
- the security element When tilted, the security element then shows a binary change in color and effect without an overlap area.
- the two viewing angle ranges can adjoin one another or be separated only by an angular distance of a few degrees, so that the associated image impressions for the viewer jump around almost seamlessly.
- the higher-lying reflection structure can also generate a first movement motif with a first color impression and the lower-lying reflection structure can generate a second movement motif with a second, different color impression, the first and second movement motifs being offset from one another when the security element is tilted move or move against each other and thereby cross each other in a position of difference in which both motives are visible.
- the two reflection structures can also generate motifs or motifs of movement which are simultaneously visible in the same surface area, that is to say have at least partially overlapping viewing angle areas. Since the vertical distance between the two reflection structures is very small and clearly below the resolution limit of the naked eye, it is The appearances generated by the two reflection structures can be presented to a viewer at the same time in the same place.
- a binary motif flip between curved and / or three-dimensional images with a binary color change is a binary motif flip between curved and / or three-dimensional images with a binary color change.
- a first viewing angle range extends, for example, from + 5 ° to + 20 ° in relation to a surface normal of the security element, a second viewing angle range from -5 ° to -20 °.
- the first and second motifs can also be identical, so that a pure binary color change results.
- a viewing angle range for the first movement motif extends, for example, from -20 ° to + 20 °
- a viewing angle range for the second, opposite movement motif conversely, extends from + 20 ° to -20 °.
- one motif runs from -20 ° to + 10 °, for example, and the other from -10 ° to + 20 °.
- a binary motif flip in which the curved and / or three-dimensionally appearing different-colored picture motifs lie within one another and / or overlap one another. When tilting, a simultaneous color change of the inner and outer motif or the overlapping motif parts takes place.
- a translucent color layer or an image of several translucent colors can be present between the two reflection structures in order to produce an additional color effect in the security element.
- the translucent colors do not have to be applied directly on / above the reflective effect pigments, a translucent color can rather be introduced at any point between the two reflection structures.
- a translucent color can also be mixed into another layer, for example by using a colored UV lacquer for the said embossing lacquer layer, a colored film or a colored binder for the printed layer of the effect pigments.
- the described security element can additionally be equipped with colorless or colored negative identifiers.
- the overlap area contains sub-areas with negative identification in which the color coating of the higher-lying reflective structure and the effect pigments of the lower-lying reflective structure are left out.
- the entire printing layer can be omitted in certain areas in order to generate a negative identifier.
- the printing layer can also have areas in which only the binder is present, but the effect pigments have been removed, for example by exposure to a laser, or their visual effect has been deactivated.
- the invention also contains a data carrier with an optically variable security element of the type described.
- the data carrier contains a carrier with opposing main surfaces, on each of which one of the two optically variable reflection structures is arranged.
- the carrier is transparent in the overlapping area or contains a transparent see-through window.
- the carrier can be formed by a transparent polymer substrate, or by a paper substrate or hybrid substrate with a transparent window area.
- both optically variable reflection structures can also be arranged one above the other on a main surface of a carrier.
- the invention also includes a method for producing an optically variable security element, preferably a security element of the type described in more detail above, in which a carrier is provided, the area of which defines a plane and a z-axis perpendicular to it, the carrier with a multicolored reflective surface area is provided, which is formed with two optically variable reflection structures which are arranged in the z-direction at different height levels and which produce a different color impression in reflection, the higher-lying reflection structure by a A relief structure provided with a color coating is formed, the lower-lying reflection structure is formed by a layer with platelet-shaped, reflective effect pigments, which are spatially aligned, and the two reflection structures are formed to overlap in an overlap region d the color coating of the higher-lying reflective structure is formed in the overlapping area with at least one recess in which the lower-lying reflective structure appears when the security element is viewed.
- a carrier the area of which defines a plane and a z-axis perpendicular to it
- a printing ink with a binding agent and with effect pigments that can be aligned magnetically or by other fields is advantageously applied.
- the effect pigments are aligned with an external field, in particular an external magnetic field, around the desired Generate spatial alignment, and the binder is solidified in order to permanently fix the alignment of the effect pigments.
- Solidifying the printing ink can include an active step of hardening, for example by means of heating or irradiation.
- the printing ink can optionally additionally comprise volatile components, but is preferably (essentially) free of volatile components.
- an embossing lacquer layer is advantageously applied to a carrier film, embossed with the desired relief structure and then provided with the color coating in areas.
- a further lacquer coating is expediently applied to the embossed and coated embossing lacquer layer, the refractive index of which does not deviate by more than 0.25 from the refractive index of the embossing lacquer layer.
- Layer sequence applied at least partially overlapping to the printing layer with the effect pigments or to a target substrate After application, the carrier film used for the production can be peeled off or, for example in the case of a thin, transparent carrier film, also remain in the security element.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a bank note with an optically variable security element according to the invention
- FIG. 2 schematically shows a detail of the security element of FIG. 1 in cross section
- FIG. 4 as a further exemplary embodiment of the invention, a modification of the embodiment of FIG.
- FIG. 5 shows a further variant of a security element according to the invention in cross section
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a bank note 10 with an optically variable security element 12 according to the invention.
- the security element 12 shows two security features with different visual appearance and movement behavior at the same time in the same area.
- a first security feature 14 of security element 12 shows a metallic, three-dimensional appearance in which a row of larger rings 22 appears to float above a row of corresponding smaller rings 24.
- the security element 12 is tilted, the larger and smaller rings 22, 24 move against each other for the viewer and thus generate a conspicuous three-dimensional movement feature.
- a second security feature 16 can be seen, which is designed in the form of a color-changing zigzag pattern 26.
- the lines of the zigzag pattern 26 show an outwardly curved three-dimensional appearance, and the color impression of the pattern 26 changes depending on the viewing angle from green when viewed perpendicularly to blue when viewed obliquely.
- FIG. 2 shows a section of the security element 12 of FIG. 1 schematically in cross section.
- the security element 12 contains a flat carrier 18, the area of which defines an xy plane and a z-axis perpendicular to it.
- the carrier 18 represents the polymer or paper substrate of the bank note 10.
- the security element 12 contains a printing layer 30 with color-shifting, platelet-shaped magnetic pigments 32 magnetically aligned in the form of the arched zigzag pattern 26.
- a printing layer 30 with magnetically alignable magnetic pigments was placed on the carrier 18 32 and the magnetic pigments 32 were aligned in the form of the desired motif with the aid of an external magnetic field while the binder 34 was still moist.
- the binder 34 was then solidified, for example by exposure to UV, in order to permanently fix the orientation of the magnetic pigments 32.
- the magnetic pigments with a color shift effect can be, for example, magnetic interference pigments, as they are described in EP 1 366 380 A2 and from Sicpa Holding SA, for example under the names OVMI Gold / Green 5 SK 1001 S, OVMI Green / Blue 5 SK 5001 S and OVMI Magenta / Green 5 SK 3001 S.
- an embossed layer 40 is arranged over the printing layer 30, which includes an embossed lacquer layer 42 with a micro-mirror embossing 44.
- the micromirror embossing 44 is provided with a color coating 46, for example a metal layer, which is only present in certain areas and which, in its recesses 54, allows a view of the printing layer 30.
- the micromirror embossing 44 is formed from a multiplicity of micromirrors inclined with respect to the xy plane with a typical edge length of approximately 10 mm.
- the local angles of inclination of the micromirrors are chosen precisely so that the relief structure formed by the micromirrors together with the color coating 46 produces a desired visual appearance, for example the representation of the two rows of rings 22, 24 of FIG.
- an embossed lacquer layer 42 can be applied to a carrier film, embossed with the desired micromirror relief structure 44 and then provided with the color coating 46 in areas.
- the coated embossing lacquer layer 44, 46 is then provided with a lacquer coating 48, the refractive index of which essentially corresponds to the refractive index of the embossing lacquer layer 42, and the layer sequence produced in this way is finally applied to the printing layer 30 in an at least partially overlapping manner.
- the lacquer coating 48 itself can have adhesive properties or an additional adhesive layer can be used.
- the carrier film used in the production can be peeled off the embossing lacquer layer or, for example in the case of a thin, transparent carrier film, can also remain on the bank note.
- the coated micromirror embossing 44, 46 of the embossing layer 40 in the security element 12 forms a higher-lying reflection structure, while the spatially oriented magnetic pigments 32 of the printing layer 30 form a deeper-lying reflection structure.
- the layers 30, 40 together form the multicolored reflective surface area of the security element 12.
- the platelet-shaped magnetic pigments 32 not only lie flat in the plane of the printing layer 30 due to the magnetic alignment, but are locally tilted to different degrees relative to this plane and are therefore spatially aligned. In this way, the magnetic pigments 32 reflect differently in different spatial directions and thus generate the special, for example three-dimensional and / or dynamic appearance of the zigzag pattern 26.
- the color coating 46 is provided with cutouts 54 in order to enable an observer 56 to see the magnetic pigments 32 underneath in some areas despite the continuous micro-mirror embossing 44.
- the color coating 46 in the embodiment of FIG. 2 is designed in the form of a regular grid 50 of grid elements 52 and grid spaces 54.
- the grid elements 52 and grid spaces 54 form, for example, a checkerboard pattern in which each field, that is to say each grid element 52 and each grid space 54, has a dimension of 100 mm ⁇ 100 mm. Since the individual micromirrors of the micromirror embossing 44 are generally significantly smaller, for example have an edge length of only 10 mm, the grid 50 of the color coating 46, unlike in the simplified schematic representation of FIG. do not mean together with the grid of the micromirrors.
- the viewer 56 cannot see that the two optically variable reflection structures are actually arranged in the z-direction at different heights - rather, despite their different visual appearance, they seem to be in the same place at the same time.
- the grid elements 52 and the grid spaces 54 each have the same dimensions, so that the area coverage of the grid is 50%.
- the area coverage of the grid with grid elements 52 is preferably between 30% and 70%, in particular between 40% and 60%.
- the security element 12 of FIGS. 1 and 2 is arranged in a transparent area or a window area of the bank note 10, it can also be viewed from the rear.
- the viewer 56 then first looks at the print layer 30 with the aligned magnetic pigments 32, so that the security feature 16 in the form of the color-shifting zigzag pattern 26 can also be clearly seen from the rear.
- the first security feature 14 can also be seen, but appears weaker from the rear side, since the viewer looks through the binding agent 34 of the printing layer 30 even in the areas without magnetic pigments 32.
- the metallic, three-dimensional appearance of the micro-mirror embossing 44 also appears three-dimensionally inverted from the rear, so that in the exemplary embodiment the smaller rings 24 appear to float over the larger rings 22.
- FIG. 3 shows some concrete advantageous configurations of the grid of the color coating 46 of the micromirror embossing 44 in plan view. It shows 3 (a) a grid 50 as used in FIG. 2, in which the grid elements 52 and the grid spaces 54 form a checkerboard pattern.
- the dimensions of the grid elements and grid spaces are advantageously between 20 x 20 mm 2 and 140 x 140 mm 2 , the area coverage is 50%. If an area coverage that deviates therefrom is to be generated, some of the grid elements 52 can be omitted or some of the grid spaces 54 can be covered with additional grid elements.
- FIG. 3 (b) shows a grid 50 with alternately arranged strip-shaped grid elements 52 and grid spaces 54.
- the width of the grid elements and grid spaces is advantageously between 20 mm and 140 mm, the length is arbitrary and can be several millimeters or even a few centimeters be.
- the area coverage can easily be set via the relative width of the grid elements and grid spaces, and is preferably between 30% and 70%, in particular between 40% and 60%.
- the grid elements and grid spaces can also have other polygonal shapes or irregular shapes.
- FIG. 3 (c) shows a configuration in which the grid elements 52 and grid spaces 54 of the grid 50 are formed by triangles.
- the grid elements 52 and grid spaces 54 are formed by irregular shapes.
- the grid elements and / or grid spaces can also form a coherent structure, as shown for example in FIG. 3 (d) for the grid spaces 54.
- the area coverage with grid elements is preferably between 30% and 70%, in particular between 40%. and 60%.
- FIG. 4 shows a modification of the embodiment of FIG.
- the micromirrors of the micromirror embossing 44 are aligned, for example, in such a way that the appearance produced by the micromirrors, for example a curved appearance with a metallic effect, is in a viewing angle range of + 5 ° to + 20 ° (viewing direction 58-A) becomes visible.
- the magnetic pigments 32 were aligned by an external magnetic field in such a way that they generate a running effect which is visible in a viewing angle range of -5 ° to -20 ° with respect to the surface normal (viewing position 58-B).
- the observer looks at the coated micromirrors of the micromirror embossing 44 in the area of the grid elements 52.
- the viewer can basically perceive the magnetic pigments 32 of the printing layer 30, but their orientation from the viewing direction 58- A far from the glancing angle.
- the magnetic pigments 32 therefore appear inconspicuous and, since they are strongly outshone by the micromirrors that are essentially at a glancing angle, practically do not contribute to the image impression.
- the viewer from the viewing direction 58-A thus essentially sees the curved representation produced by the micro-mirror embossing 44.
- the micromirrors of the micromirror embossing 44 develop no optical effect in the raster spaces 54 due to the lack of refractive index difference of the lacquer layers 42, 48, so that the viewer there is essentially at a glancing angle on the viewing direction 58-B Magnetic pigments 32 looks.
- the micromirrors of the micromirror embossing 44 are basically perceptible, but their alignment is far from the glancing angle from the viewing direction 58-B
- Magnetic pigments 32 are strongly overexposed, practically not contributing to the image impression. Overall, the viewer from the viewing direction 58-B thus essentially sees the optically variable running effect generated by the magnetic pimples 32
- FIG. 1 Another variant of a security element 62 according to the invention is illustrated in FIG.
- the security element 62 is largely constructed similarly to the security element 12 described in connection with FIG. 2, so that elements corresponding to one another are each provided with the same reference symbols.
- the Security element 62 has a flat carrier 18, a printing layer 30 with aligned, color-shifting, platelet-shaped magnetic pigments 32 and an embossing layer 40 arranged above the printing layer 30 with a micromirror embossing 44 introduced into an embossing lacquer layer 42, which is provided with a color coating 46 present in some areas.
- the color coating 46 of the embodiment of FIG. 5 has a large-area recess 66, for example in the form of a 5 mm wide and 2 cm long curved strip.
- the micromirrors of the micromirror embossing 44 develop no optical effect due to the lack of refractive index difference between the lacquer layers 42, 48, so that a viewer there looks at the lower-lying magnetic pigments 32 of the printing layer 30.
- Security element 62 is determined by the higher-lying micromirror embossing 44 and its color coating 46.
- the micromirror embossing 44 can produce, for example in the outer area 64, a motif 64 which appears to bulge out of the plane of the security element 62 and which appears in a first color.
- a light bar can move up and down along the sub-area 66 and produce a so-called rolling bar effect. Since the rolling bar effect is just visible in the cutout 66 of the color coating 46, the areas of different colors (first and second colors) and different effects (three-dimensional motif or running bar) appear to match each other exactly.
- embossing layer 40 can be designed in all variants with or without a carrier film and can be in the form of a strip or patch, for example.
- FIG. 6 (a) shows a polymer bank note 70 with a transparent polymer substrate 72, in which the printing layer 30 and the embossing layer 40 are arranged on opposite sides, at least partially overlapping one another.
- FIG. 6 (b) shows a paper bank note 80 with a paper substrate 82 with a window 84.
- the printing layer 30 and the embossing layer 40 are arranged at least partially overlapping one another on opposite sides of the window 84 Window magnetic pigments 32 are present, as illustrated in Fig. 6 (b).
- FIG. 6 (c) shows a hybrid banknote 90 with a foil / paper / foil hybrid substrate 92 with a window 94 in the paper core 96.
- the printing layer 30 and the embossing layer 40 are arranged on opposite sides of the hybrid substrate 92 and overlap each other in the area of the Window 94 at least partially.
- the embossing layer 40 as shown in Fig. 6 (c), be applied externally on the composite of the hybrid substrate 92, but it can also be present, for example, between the paper core 96 and one of the film layers 98 and thus represent a particularly strongly protected, internal security feature.
- a further variant of the invention consists in not applying the embossed layer in the form of a security film, but instead introducing the embossed structure 44 directly into the polymer substrate of a work document.
- the printing layer 30 can then then be printed on in an overlapping manner.
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