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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1992
Kunihiro Koshizuka, all of, Hino, JP;
Shigehiro Kitamura, all of, Hino, JP;
Atsushi Nakajima, all of, Hino, JP;
Tomonori Kawamura, all of, Hino, JP;
Konica Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a method of simply producing an ID card which can provide the Id card with character information shared by the same kind of ID cards issued in large numbers, and an ID card which offers improved protection of the gradation image formed on the image-receiving layer and which is difficult to forge or alter. The ID card is characterized in that a transparent resin sheet having character information shared by the same kind of ID cards is provided on the surface of an image-receiving layer which has a gradation image and character-information-bearing image and which has been formed on the support. The method of producing an ID card of the present invention is characterized in that a transparent resin sheet having character information shared by the same kind of ID cards is provided by hot stamping in the gradation image forming region of the image-receiving layer which has a gradation image and character-information-bearing image and which has been formed on the support.