JPS6258249A - Card with photograph and its producing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently produce a card with a photograph, by using a compositely printed photograph, on which the photograph and literal pictures, such as name, etc., of a person are printed, as a display sheet and joining two core sheets to the lower surfaces of the display sheet and a frame sheet after putting the display sheet in the frame sheet, and then, joining cover-sheets to both surfaces of the card thus prepared. CONSTITUTION:On the printed surface of a display card 1 the photograph 1a of a person, literal pictures 1b indicating the personal information, such as name, etc., of the person, and graphic picture 1c are printed. These pictures 1a-1c are combined by means of a computer. The display sheet 1 is put in the opening 2a of a frame sheet 2 and the 1st core sheet 3 is thermally press- sticked to the lower surfaces of the display sheet 1 and frame sheet 2. Then the 2nd core sheet 4 is additionaly thermally press-sticked to the lower surface of the 1st core sheet 3 so as to increase the whole strength. The 1st and 2nd transparent cover-sheets 5 and 6 are respectively put on the upper surface of the frame sheet 2 and lower surface of the 2nd core sheet 4 by thermal press- sticking.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a photo card using a display sheet made by combining a person image and a character image and printing it on photographic paper, and a method for producing the same. be.

[Conventional technology]

Currently, a wide variety of cards are widely used, such as identification cards (ID cards), driver's licenses, tally cards, bank cards, oil cards, commuter passes, and doctor's tickets. Cards that require personal identification, such as employee identification cards and driver's licenses, contain personal information such as name and date of birth, as well as a photo (face photo) of the owner.

For the photo card, personal information is written on a display sheet (core sheet) with headings and other items printed on it using a typewriter, etc., and then inserted into the opening formed at the edge of the core sheet.
It is known to have a structure in which a small photograph of a person (face photograph) is inserted, and an oversheet is placed on both sides and bonded with heat.

In addition, for driver's licenses, an application form with personal information typed is placed in a camera, and when photographing a person, the personal information is transferred onto inverted color paper (thickness 0.23n) using another lens, and the person's image and text are transferred to the camera. It has a structure in which reverse color paper with an image printed on it is sandwiched between two polyester sheets. An adhesive containing an ethylene copolymer as a main component is applied in advance to one side of this polyester sheet.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

The above-mentioned photo card has the problem that it is cumbersome to produce and cannot be produced efficiently because the characters must be written on the core sheet and then a separately created photograph of the person must be inserted into the core sheet. .

In addition, driver's licenses have a structure in which reversed color paper is sandwiched between two polyester sheets, so they are easily bent, and furthermore, the reversed color paper bulges out and the periphery is indented, making it inconvenient to handle. There is a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a photo card that is easy to produce, durable, and has a flat surface, and a method for producing the same.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the photo card of the present invention includes a display sheet in which a person's image and a character image such as a name are combined and printed on photographic paper, and a display sheet into which the display sheet is inserted. A frame sheet made of plastic, a first core sheet made of plastic joined to the lower surface of the frame sheet, a second core sheet made of plastic joined to the lower surface of the first core sheet, and an upper surface of the frame sheet. a first oversheet made of transparent plastic bonded to;
It consists of a second oversheet bonded under the second core sheet, and an adhesive layer bonding the display sheet and the first oversheet.

The display sheet includes a person image taken with a TV camera,
For example, a computer is used to synthesize (layout) character images representing personal information such as name, age, etc., which are created manually, and this synthesized image is displayed on a CRT, reduced in size and printed on photographic paper, such as color photographic paper. It can be created by developing. This display sheet has a thickness of 100 to 16
It is best to use photographic paper with a thickness of about 0μ.

In order to prevent the display sheet from bulging out, a frame sheet made of white or transparent plastic is used, and the display sheet is fitted into a large opening formed in the frame sheet. It is preferable that this frame sheet has approximately the same thickness as the display sheet.

First and second white core sheets are sequentially joined to the lower surface of this frame sheet. By laminating these two core sheets, the entire core sheet becomes strong and can be prevented from bending like conventional cards.

On the lower surface of the second core sheet and the upper surface of the frame sheet, two
The transparent oversheets are each joined together. To prevent air from entering between the display sheet and the oversheet when the card is squeezed, the display sheet and the first
It is joined to the oversheet using adhesive. The adhesive is applied in advance to the print side of the display sheet or to the inner surface of the oversheet facing the display sheet.

The frame sheet, the two core sheets, and the oversheet are made of plastic that can be thermocompressed, such as polyvinyl chloride resin, and these five sheets are stacked and sandwiched between a pair of ferro plates. In this state, each plastic sheet is heat-pressed by heating and pressurizing, and the display sheet and the first oversheet are heat-sealed.Finally, a thin frame sheet is left around the display sheet using a punch cutter. Punch out.

Further, in order to simplify the combination of plastic sheets and to eliminate misalignment, it is preferable to use sheets folded in two. The photo card of the present invention using this bi-folded sheet is created by computer-compositing a person's image and a character image of personal information such as name, printing this on color photographic paper to create a display sheet, and creating a display sheet on the printed surface. Apply heat-sealing adhesive to the display sheet, fit this display sheet into an opening formed on one side of the first plastic sheet that has been folded in half, insert a plastic core sheet between them, and then fold the display sheet in half. The display sheet is sandwiched between two transparent plastic oversheets, and the oversheet is heated and pressurized from both sides to thermocompress the oversheet and the first sheet, and the display sheet is bonded to the oversheet with an adhesive. After this thermocompression bonding, the first sheet is punched out from the outside while maintaining a certain distance from the opening of the first sheet.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

〔Example〕

1 and 2 show a photo card of the present invention. As the display sheet 1, thin color photographic paper with a thickness of 100 to 160 μm is used, and on the printed surface thereof, a person image 1a, a character image 1b representing personal information such as a name, etc.
A graphic image 1c is printed respectively. Each of these images 1a to lc is created by combining (layout) the image by a computer, printing the composite image displayed on a printing CRT onto color photographic paper using a three-color sequential exposure method, and then developing it. There is.

The display sheet 1 is fitted into the opening 2a of the frame sheet 2. The frame sheet 2 is made of transparent or white plastic, such as polyvinyl chloride resin.

A first core sheet 3 is bonded under thermocompression to the frame sheet 2 and the display sheet 1. The first core sheet 3 is made of white plastic, such as polyvinyl chloride, and has characters such as precautions printed on its lower surface. A second core sheet 4 made of transparent or opaque plastic, such as polyvinyl chloride, is thermocompression bonded to the lower surface of the first core sheet 3, thereby increasing the strength of the entire core sheet.

A transparent first oversheet 5 is provided on the upper surface of the frame sheet 2.
A transparent second oversheet 6 is bonded by thermocompression to the lower surface of the second core sheet 4. A magnetic stripe 7 is bonded to the lower surface of the second oversheet 6. This magnetic stripe 7 may be bonded to the upper surface of the first oversheet 5.

In order to prevent air from entering between the first oversheet 5 and the display sheet 1 when the card is squeezed, the display sheet 1 and the first oversheet 5 are connected using a colorless and transparent adhesive 8. It is glued. This adhesive 8 is applied in advance to the print surface of the display sheet 1 or the lower surface of the first oversheet 5. Note that the adhesive 8 is attached to the display sheet 1.
It may be applied to both sides.

The adhesive 8 has high light transmittance, generates few bubbles during heat sealing, and has no adhesive property at room temperature.
An adhesive that exhibits adhesive properties when heated is used, and such an adhesive 8 is one in which a polyamide resin or chlorinated polyprene is used as a pace polymer, and for example, acrylic acid-butyl methacrylate copolymer is added as a pred polymer. It is preferable to use

In this embodiment, the size of the display sheet 1 is L
is 441 m, and W is 75.6 mm.

Further, since the width of the frame sheet 2 is 5N, the size of the card is 54 x 85.6 mm. The first oversheet 5 is made of transparent polyvinyl chloride with a thickness of Q and 1 mm, the frame sheet 2 is made of transparent polyvinyl chloride with a thickness of 0.15 mm, and the first core sheet 3 is made of transparent polyvinyl chloride with a thickness of 1 mm. is 0.
3tm opaque polyvinyl chloride is used. The second core sheet 4 is made of transparent polyvinyl chloride with a thickness of 0.15 mm, and the second oversheet 6 is made of the same material as the first oversheet 5. The thickness of the adhesive 8 is about 0.01 fin.

Next, creation of a display sheet will be explained. Figure 3 shows CR
This figure shows a T-composite image printing device. The person image input section 10 is constituted by an image reproducing machine that reproduces a person image recorded on a magnetic recording medium, and inputs the reproduced person image data to the image composition section 11. This person image data is obtained by directly capturing the upper body of the person or by capturing a film of the person using a TV camera, and a videotape camera or a still video camera is used as the TV camera. In the case of a video tape camera, a video tape is used as the magnetic recording medium, and in the case of a still video camera, a video floppy is used as the magnetic recording medium.

10 per person using 3/4 inch wide videotape
If you record seconds at a time, you can record 360 people on a 60-minute tape. In the case of a video floppy, if frames are recorded, 24 people can be recorded on one video floppy. .

The character image input section 12 consists of a console consisting of a CRT and a keyboard, and inputs the name and date of birth by operating the keyboard while looking at the CRT.

Enter personal information such as employee number, and input commands such as reading image data and starting printing. Character image data input from this keyboard is recorded on a storage medium such as a floppy disk. Therefore, when updating a photo card with a new one, since there is almost no change in personal information, it is only necessary to set a floppy disk containing character image data, making it easy to issue an updated card.

The graphic image input section 13 is composed of, for example, a digitizer, and is for inputting marks and line drawings such as company marks created by computer graphics (CG), and this input graphic image data is stored on a floppy disk. Ru.

The image synthesizing section 11 is composed of a microcomputer, reads out human image data from the human image input section 10 in the order in which the images were taken, reads out character image data in the order in which they are input from the character image input section 12, and inputs them into a predetermined manner. By laying out the character image at the position , the character image and the character image are combined, a graphic image inputted from the graphic image input section 13 is added thereto, and the data of this combined image is sent to the CRT controller 14.

The CRT controller 14 is for controlling a color monitor 15 and a monochrome CRT 16 for printing, and before printing, it sends composite image data only to the color monitor 15 and displays a positive image on this display surface. and,
When printing, the composite image is inverted to a negative image, and then
The image is sent to the monochrome CRT 16 for printing, and the beam is swung in the opposite direction to the usual direction, that is, from right to left, to reverse the left and right sides of the composite image.

After checking the color monitor 15 to confirm that the person's image and personal information match, the user operates the print key on the console. The CRT controller 14 extracts one color from the three-color composite image and converts it into a black and white CR for printing.
The composite image is displayed at T16. Black and white CR for this print
The composite image displayed at T16 is focused on color photographic paper 19 by lens 18 while shutter 17 is open. When printing this three-color black-and-white composite image, blue filter B, green filter G, and red filter R are selectively inserted, converting it into a monochrome image of blue, green, and red, and thereby using the three-color sequential exposure method. A color composite image is printed onto color photographic paper 19. This color photographic paper 1
9, a thin one of 100 to 160 μm is used to prevent the card from warping.

When one frame of the composite image is printed on the color photographic paper 19, the color photographic paper 19 is moved intermittently for one frame, and then the next composite image is printed. The color photographic paper 19 on which a plurality of composite images have been sequentially printed in this manner enters a well-known photographic processing device 20, where it is subjected to development processing, fixing processing, and drying processing, and is then wound up into a roll. In addition, when performing embossing to make the company mark embossed, the embossing step may be added after the drying treatment step.

FIG. 4 shows an apparatus for applying adhesive to color photographic paper. A plurality of composite images are printed by the apparatus shown in FIG. 3, and the color photographic paper 19 is wound into a roll.
A pair of application rollers 22 and 23 apply liquid adhesive 24 to the entire surface on which the image is printed.

The adhesive 24 is contained in a container 25, into which a portion of one application roller 22 is dipped, and the adhesive 24 adhering to the outer periphery is transferred onto the color photographic paper 19.

The color photographic paper 19 coated with the adhesive 24 in the coating process is scraped off with a squeeze 26 to remove excess adhesive 24 so that the coating thickness of the adhesive 24 is a constant value, for example, 10μ, and then placed in a drying box. Enter 27. In this drying box 27,
Warm air is supplied by a fan 28 to dry the adhesive 24 applied to the color photographic paper 19.

The dried colored photographic paper 9 passes through a damper loop before being sent to a punching position. A punching cutter consisting of a fixed blade 30a and a movable blade 30b is arranged at this punching position, and punches are made from a punching line 31 shown by a dashed line in FIG. 5. Through this punching process, the punched color photographic paper becomes a display sheet 1 on which a person's image, a character image such as a name, and a graphic image such as a company mark are printed at predetermined positions, and is accumulated in a container 34. .

Note that the color photographic paper 19 in which the display sheet 1 is punched out and the holes 19a are formed is wound up into a roll as waste paper.

Using the display sheet 1 created in this way and five plastic sheets, stack them on each other as shown in Figure 1, and insert two ferro plates (chrome-plated stainless steel plates).
The photo cards shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 are created by sandwiching the sheets between them, applying pressure and heating, and thermocompression bonding and integrating the sheets.

When mass-producing photo cards, a large-sized frame sheet 36 is used in which a plurality of openings 36a are arranged, for example, in two rows and four columns, as shown in FIG. Further, a core sheet and an oversheet of a size corresponding to this frame sheet 36 are used, and a plurality of photo cards are simultaneously created by thermo-compression bonding, and simultaneously punched out from a punching line 37 shown by a dotted line. During this thermocompression bonding, one set of combined sheets is stacked in several stages with ferro plates interposed between them, and a press pressure of 15 to 30 is applied.
kg/cd, about 1 at a heating temperature of 140 to 160℃
Heat and press for 5 minutes, then cool with tap water for about 15 minutes, then release the pressure.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 7 to 9, a method for creating a photo-containing card using the first sheet and the oversheet which are folded in half will be described.

In FIG. 6, a display sheet 40 is created by sequentially performing a composite image printing process, an adhesive application process, and a punching process.
, a graphic image, a character image, and a person image are combined and printed, and an adhesive 41 having heat-sealability is applied to the surface thereof.

The first sheet 42 is folded in half along the perforations, one of which becomes a frame sheet portion 42a and the other of which becomes a second core sheet portion 42b. This frame sheet portion 42a has an opening 42c.
is formed. This opening 42C has the same size as the display sheet 40;
is inserted.

The first sheet 42 is made of plastic, for example, a white polyvinyl chloride resin.

A first core sheet 43 made of white polyvinyl chloride is inserted between these. Note that after inserting the first core sheet 43, the display sheet 40 may be fitted into the opening 42C. In this case, if double-sided tape is attached to the back side of the display sheet 40 and the display sheet 40 is fitted into the frame sheet portion 42a, the display sheet 40 can be prevented from shifting.

The transparent oversheet 44 includes a first oversheet portion 44a and a second oversheet 44b that are folded in half from the perforation, and a folded portion 44c that is formed by folding back the tip of the first oversheet portion 44a from the perforation. It consists of The first plate into which the display sheet 40 is fitted
The sheet 42 is sandwiched between the oversheets 44. This transparent oversheet 44 is made of plastic, such as a transparent polyvinyl chloride resin, which can be thermocompression bonded to the first sheet 42 . The oversheet 44 also has a second
A magnetic stripe 45 is attached to the front side of the oversheet portion 44b. The folded portion 44C is provided to prevent the first sheet 42 and the like from coming out.

The oversheet 44 sandwiching the first sheet 42 is integrated in a thermocompression bonding process shown in FIG. The thermocompression bonding device used in this process consists of a fixed press plate 47 and a movable press plate 48.
and a fan 49, and these press plates 47 and 48 each have built-in heaters 50 and 51. During thermocompression bonding, the combined sheet is sandwiched between chrome-plated ferro plates 52 and 53 in order to have a smooth surface, and placed on the fixed press plate 47. In order to facilitate the positioning of the sheet, it is preferable to provide the fixed press plate 47 with an L-shaped contact plate where two sides of the sheet touch.

When the start button (not shown) is pressed, the movable press plate 4
8 descends and pinches it from both sides of the oversheet 44 via the ferro plates 52 and 53, and the heater 5
0.51 is energized and heated to heat and press each plastic sheet together. Further, the adhesive 41 applied on the display sheet 40 is thermally melted, and the display sheet 40 and the first
The oversheet portion 44a is heat-sealed.

For thermocompression bonding of the oversheet 44, for example, the press pressure is 15 to 20 kg/cd, and the temperature is 140 to 150°C.
and the time is 3 to 4 minutes. After this thermocompression bonding, the heaters 50 and 51 are turned off, and the fan 49 is activated to move the first sheet 42, the overseed 44, and the adhesive 4.
Cool until 1 hardens. This cooling time is 3
About a minute is sufficient, after which the movable press plate 48 is raised, the pressure is released, and the thermocompression bonding process is completed. Note that it is also possible to thermocompress a plurality of sheets at the same time by stacking the ferro plates and the combination sheets alternately, pressing them from both sides, and heating the inside of the press chamber with a heater.

FIG. 9 shows the card punching process.

The card punching device used in this process has a fixed blade 55
and a movable blade 56. After inserting the combination sheet that has gone through the above-mentioned thermocompression bonding process, if the movable blade 55 is lowered, a card with a photo is punched out, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The finished product is shown in .

In this punching process, if the display sheet 40 is punched out, the edges of the display sheet 40 will be exposed and moisture will penetrate from there, causing peeling. It is punched out with a margin of 5111 so that it is covered with the oversheet 44. Following this punching process, numbers such as employee numbers can be embossed onto the display sheet 40 using a commercially available embossing machine.

In the embodiment described above, color photographic paper is used, but when a black and white CRT composite image is printed, black and white photographic paper is used. Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, an explanation was given of an employee's identification card, but the present invention can also be used to create other photo cards, such as a driver's license.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained in detail above, according to the present invention, a composite print photograph in which a person image and a character image such as a name are printed on photographic paper is used as a display sheet, and this display sheet is fitted into a frame sheet, and a Two core sheets were joined together, and oversheets were joined to both sides of these sheets, so
Cards can be made efficiently, and since the frame sheet is used, the entire card is flat, and since the two core sheets are interposed, it is strong and there is no risk of bending.

Furthermore, since the display sheet is bonded to the oversheet with adhesive, even when the card is squeezed, there is no air between the display sheet and the oversheet, and only the image of the person can be cut out and replaced. Such counterfeiting can be prevented.

It can also be embossed, which cannot be done with conventional polyester sheets, so it can prevent counterfeiting.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view showing the layered structure of the photo card of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view of the photo card of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a CRT composite image printing device. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a display sheet production device. FIG. 5 is a plan view of the color photographic paper showing the punching range. FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a large size frame sheet. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing the combination of sheets according to the manufacturing method of the present invention. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the thermocompression bonding process. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing the punching process. 1...Display screen) 1a...Person image 1b...
Character image IC...Graphic image 2...Frame sheet
2a...Opening 3...First core sheet 4...Second core sheet 5...First oversheet 6...Second oversheet 7...Magnetic stripe 8...Adhesive 16.・Black and white CRT for printing 19・・Color photographic paper 24・・Adhesive 2・7・・Drying box 30a, 3
0b--1 Punching cutter 40...Display sheet 41...Adhesive 42...
First sheet 42a...Frame sheet part 42b...Second core sheet part 42C...Opening 43...First core sheet 44...Oversheet 44a...First oversheet part 44b...Second oversheet Section 45: Magnetic stripe.

Claims (10)

[Claims] (1) A display sheet made by combining a person image and a character image such as a name and printing it on photographic paper; a plastic frame sheet in which an opening into which the display sheet is inserted is formed; A plastic first joint is attached to the bottom surface.
a core sheet; a second core sheet made of plastic joined to the lower surface of the first core sheet; a first oversheet made of transparent plastic joined to the upper surface of the frame sheet; A photo card comprising: a second transparent plastic oversheet bonded to the bottom surface; and an adhesive layer bonding the display sheet and the first oversheet. (2) The display sheet is synthesized by a computer,
2. A photo card according to claim 1, wherein a person image and a character image displayed on a CRT are printed. (3) The photo card according to claim 2, wherein the display sheet is a color photographic paper, and a composite color image is printed on the display sheet. (4) A photo card according to claim 3, characterized in that a magnetic stripe is adhered to the outer surface of the first oversheet or the second oversheet. (5) The photo card according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein each of the plastic sheets is made of polyvinyl chloride resin. (6) The photo card according to claim 5, wherein the first core sheet and the frame sheet are opaque. (7) The display sheet has a thickness of 100 to 160 μm.
A photo card according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that: (8) The photo card according to claim 7, wherein the frame sheet and the display sheet have substantially the same thickness. (9) Create a display sheet by synthesizing a person's image and a character image such as a name on a computer and printing it on color photographic paper. Apply heat-sealing adhesive to this display sheet, and paste this display sheet into two Insert into the opening formed on one side of the folded first plastic sheet,
An opaque plastic core sheet is inserted between these, and these are sandwiched between a transparent plastic oversheet that has been folded in half.The oversheet is heated and pressurized from both sides to separate each plastic sheet. A method for producing a photo card, comprising the steps of thermal compression bonding, adhering a display sheet to an oversheet via an adhesive, and punching out a predetermined size after this adhesion. (10) The method for producing a photo card according to claim 9, wherein the display sheet is a thin color photographic paper having a thickness of about 100 to 160 μm.