To provide a laminate which makes it possible to prevent the time deterioration of the thermal transfer image effectively and to enhance the light resistance, and which is used to produce a card body for an ID card and the like and a booklet body such as a data page of a passport. A laminate according to the present invention is characterized by including a front substrate, a laser coloring substrate, a thermal transfer image layer, a white layer, and a back substrate, wherein the laser coloring substrate contains a light resistance improving material.

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a pressure sealing processing apparatus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to permit execution of the pressure sealing processing process by the pressure sealing processing apparatus on a recording material of which a grammage is smaller than a predetermined grammage, and is configured not to permit execution of the pressure sealing processing process by the pressure sealing processing apparatus on a recording material of which a grammage is equal to or more than the predetermined grammage.

An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a pressure sealing processing apparatus, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to permit execution of the pressure sealing processing process by the pressure sealing processing apparatus on a recording material of which a grammage is smaller than a predetermined grammage, and is configured not to permit execution of the pressure sealing processing process by the pressure sealing processing apparatus on a recording material of which a grammage is equal to or more than the predetermined grammage.

Provided are a resin composition which can provide a resin sheet having excellent light shielding properties with titanium oxide sufficiently dispersed, as well as a resin sheet, a multilayered article and a card produced therefrom. The resin composition includes a polycarbonate resin in an amount of 30 to 95 parts by mass, and titanium oxide in an amount of 5 to 40 parts by mass, wherein the titanium oxide has an average primary particle size of 0.22 to 0.26 .Math.m based on measurement of an image observed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and wherein the titanium oxide has an Si content of 1.0 to 1.8 % by mass and an Al content of 1.6 to 2.2 % by mass based on measurement by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis after firing at 700° C. for 2 hours.

A laminated transaction card may comprise post-consumer polyethylene with a thickness of at least 30% of a thickness of the laminated transaction card. A first polymer- based layer comprising polyvinyl chloride is coupled to a first surface of the core layer by a first adhesive layer. A second polymer-based layer comprising polyvinyl chloride is coupled to a second surface of the core layer by a second adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer comprise an adhesive formulated to bond the post-consumer polyethylene and the polymer-based layers.

A security document has a carrier element which has a surface with a principal plane and a personalization region. A personalization layer is applied to the surface, such that the surface of the carrier element in the personalization region is configured with a plurality of structure elements uniformly aligned with each other and raised with respect to the principal plane. The structure elements of the plurality of structure elements are configured immediately adjacent to each other and the structure elements are configured with a center distance between vertical axes of the respective structure elements of less than 250 μm.

A security document has a carrier element which has a surface with a principal plane and a personalization region. A personalization layer is applied to the surface, such that the surface of the carrier element in the personalization region is configured with a plurality of structure elements uniformly aligned with each other and raised with respect to the principal plane. The structure elements of the plurality of structure elements are configured immediately adjacent to each other and the structure elements are configured with a center distance between vertical axes of the respective structure elements of less than 250 μm.

An inlay for a card includes a first transparent overlay sheet, an antenna carrier sheet, a thickness compensation sheet, a second transparent overlay sheet. The inlay also includes a microcontroller, a module lead frame, a finger sensor lead frame, an antenna, and electrical wires. The module lead frame is adapted for being milled and includes a plurality of first contact pads for contacting a contact module. The finger sensor lead frame is adapted for being milled and includes a plurality of second contact pads for contacting a fingerprint sensor. The electrical wires are connected to the microcontroller, to the first contact pads, to the second contact pads, and to the antenna.

An optical device is formed by hot stamping a demetallized hologram to an optically variable foil or to a coating of optically variable ink. In another embodiment a hologram is hot stamped to a banknote or document printed with a color-shifting ink.

When forming layer stacks in the presence of solder material, uncontrolled flow of the solder material at the interface of two different layers of the layer stack may significantly be mitigated by providing an area of increased pressure in the material of the overlaying foil layer. For example, the area of increased pressure may be generated during the lamination process by providing a pressure inducing structure, for instance on the underlying foil layer, which laterally surrounds the solder material and therefore, in combination with the material of the overlying foil layer, reliably confines the solder material.