Abstract: The disclosure concerns an identification card containing information such as name, account number, photograph of the card owner, etc. The card is protected by a superjacent printed security pattern, such as a guilloche, or other pattern which is difficult to imitate, or a homogeneous printed surface. The information is inscribed into the identification card material through the printed security pattern by a laser beam recorder. The energy of the laser and the colors of the printed security pattern are coordinated with each other in such a way that the laser light is not absorbed by the printed security pattern and the latter is not destroyed by the laser light.

Abstract: An identification card having information applied in the form of patterns, letters, numbers and/or images, formed by interruptions in the homogeneity of different colored layer areas arranged superjacently on the identification card. The colored information can be produced by selectively removing the color layers by means of a controlled laser beam or by blurring or other chemical reactions induced by said beam. Thus identification cards can be produced having a high standard of security in spite of the simplicity of their production.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns an identification card containing information such as name, account number, photo of the card owner, etc. The card is protected by a superjacent printed security pattern, such as a guilloche, or other pattern which is difficult to imitate, or a homogeneous printed surface. The information is inscribed into the identification card material through the printed security pattern by a laser beam recorder. The energy of the laser and the colors of the printed security pattern are coordinated with each other in such a way that the laser light is not absorbed by the printed security pattern and the latter is not destroyed by the laser light.

Abstract: An identification card, in particular an all-plastic indentification card, written on by means of a laser, having user-related and user-neutral data such as a name, account number, etc. present on the surface of the indentification card in the form of local discolorations of the identification card material without any transition. Due to a local increase in tensile strength, these decolorized areas have greater resistance to mechanical changes and/or chemical solvents than the surrounding areas of the identification card made of the same identification card material. Thus attempted falsification by means of mechanical and chemical means is prevented in an especially effective way, since such attempts lead to destruction of the identification card in each case.

Abstract: An identification card having information applied in the form of patterns, letters, numbers and/or images, formed by interruptions, in the homogeneity of different colored layer areas arranged superjacently on the identification card. The colored information can be produced by selectively removing the color layers by means of a controlled laser beam or by blurring or other chemical reactions induced by said beam. Thus identification cards can be produced having a high standard of security in spite of the simplicity of their production.