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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2001
Hermina Romanic, West Brunswick, AU;
Wayne Kevin Jackson, Reservoir, AU;
Securency Pty Ltd, Craigieburn, AU;
Abstract
A security document or device having a substrate ( ), a smooth highly reflective layer ( ) applied to the substrate ( ) and having a reflectivity of at least 60 gloss units, a raised printed image ( ) of lines or dots applied to said reflective layer ( ) by a printing process and having a height of about 10 to 100 &mgr;m, and typically about 30 &mgr;m, and a similar spacing being adjacent lines or dots, the hue chroma value of the ink used to print the image being between 30 and about 50 chroma units tending towards a saturation value of 60 chroma units, the lightness of the ink being at least 50 L degrees (lightness units), and typically between 70 and 100 L degrees.