Patent ID: 7223460

Claim:
A rectangular card made according to a method comprising: extruding a thermoplastic composition to form a thermoplastic sheet, wherein the thermoplastic composition comprises a continuous phase and a dispersed phase, wherein A) the continuous phase comprises a polymer composition resulting from the polymerization of a monomer mixture comprising (i) from about 25 to 75 parts by weight of a styrenic monomer and (ii) from about 25 to 75 parts by weight of an alkyl(meth)acrylate monomer, wherein the alkyl group is a C 1 to C 12 linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group, in the presence of the dispersed phase; and B) the dispersed phase comprises from about 2 to about 50 parts by weight of one or more block copolymers selected from the group consisting of diblock and triblock copolymers of styrene-butadiene, styrene-butadiene-styrene, styrene-isoprene, styrene-isoprene-styrene, partially hydrogenated styrene-isoprene-styrene, for a total of 100 parts by weight of the combination of A) and B); optionally surface treating the extruded sheet; cuffing the sheet to form a smaller sheet of desired dimensions; printing on a surface of the smaller sheet; optionally cutting the smaller sheet to desired item dimensions; and optionally laminating the item; wherein the card is formed so that a portion of the thermoplastic composition is raised above a plane of the card to form characters.