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(11) EP 0 439 257 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
18.12.1991 Bulletin 1991/51

(43) Date of publication A2:
31.07.1991 Bulletin 1991/31

(21) Application number: 91300197.0

(22) Date of filing: 11.01.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: B42D 5/02
(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE ES FR GB IT

(30) Priority: 13.01.1990 GB 9000790

(71) Applicant: KENRICK & JEFFERSON LIMITED
West Bromwich, West Midlands B70 8NB (GB)

(72) Inventors:
  • Digby, Roger
    Evesham, Worcestershire WR11 4UN (GB)
  • Wells, Ivan
    Stourbridge, West Midlands DY9 0YR (GB)

(74) Representative: Prutton, Roger et al
MARKS & CLERK, Alpha Tower, Suffolk Street Queensway
Birmingham B1 1TT
Birmingham B1 1TT (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) Cheque books and other multi-leaf security documents


    (57) A method of producing cheque books and other multi-leaf security documents comprising collating (12) documents pre-printed with machine readable personalised data into sets, reading (14) the personalised data from the top document of each set, printing (15) on the outer surface of one of a pair of cover sheets, a machine readable code which is substantially un-readable by the naked human eye, assembling (13) said cover sheets with the corresponding set, with said machine-readable code on an exterior surface, and using such machine-readable code to control subsequent operations on the finished document.






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