Identification document with improved anti-tamper security; method of producing an identification document which facilitates detection of tampering with the identification document

A method of producing an identification document (ID) with a substrate and a laminating film, having the following steps:

• (i) providing the substrate,
• (ii) printing the substrate with first text, numeric and/or image data detectable with the naked eye at least when illuminated by daylight,
• (iii) coating the substrate in a first zone with a fluorescent substance, which fluoresces in a manner detectable with the naked eye when excited with light of a specific wavelength range,
• (iv) providing a laminating film,
• (v) engraving second text, numeric and/or image data in a second zone of the laminating film, wherein the engraved text, numeric and/or image data are engraved to such a depth into a layer of the laminating film which blocks or at least attenuates light in a specific wavelength range that the blocking or at least attenuating effect of the layer is reduced to such an extent that the second text, numeric and/or image data located in the second zone are detectable with the naked eye when illuminated with light of a wavelength range which excites the fluorescent substance of the first zone and causes it to fluoresce, and
• (vi) applying the laminating film to the substrate by lamination, such that the first zone of the substrate and the second zone of the laminating film overlap one another at least partially.