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Method for the individual application of hot embossing film and security documents produced therewith

  • US 8,337,653 B2
  • Filed: 02/18/2009
  • Issued: 12/25/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of hot laminating a hot embossing film, comprising printing an adhesive in the form of symbols, patterns, numbers on a substrate;

  • hot laminating a diffractive hot embossing film, consisting of backing film, peel-off layer and decorative layer, onto the printed substrate and then removing the backing film;

    wherein the substrate is a personal document on which personal data, in particular a passport photograph, is printed with digital printing technology methods, the adhesive being a toner or a dye which develops adhesive characteristics at lamination temperatures;

    wherein the diffractive hot embossing film is without an adhesive coating and is hot-laminated onto the printed personal document and the backing film is again removed; and

    wherein an adhesive film with an adhesive force <

    10 N/cm is rolled over the substrate surface for removing non-bonded film residues.

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