Patent ID: 7357075

Claim:
A process for producing a marking on a substrate, wherein energy in the form of radiation is introduced from a controllable energy source into surface structurings of a replication surface of a replication apparatus to produce at least one shaping region, wherein the shaping region of the replication surface is shaped on to the substrate by the replication apparatus contacting the substrate under pressure, wherein the replication surface is subjected to a temperature control effect at least in a partial region using an additional controllable energy source, wherein an energy input by radiation from the radiation producing energy source and an energy input from the additional controllable energy source is introduced into the replication surface so that at least one portion of the replication surface is in the form of a heat combination region, wherein at least two portions of the replication surface are set to different temperatures, wherein the marking is formed by shaping the shaping region on the substrate, wherein the portion of the replication surface which is in the form of the heat combination region directly and/or indirectly forms the shaping region, and wherein, for the moment in time of the shaping operation, the temperature of the replication surface is set such that: the temperature of the replication surface outside the heat combination region is set to a temperature or a temperature range in the plastic temperature range of the substrate and the temperature of the replication surface within the heat combination region is set to a temperature or a temperature range in the flow temperature range of the substrate; or the temperature of the replication surface outside the heat combination region is set to a temperature or a temperature range in the elastic temperature range of the substrate and the temperature of the replication surface within the heat combination region is set to a temperature or a temperature range in the plastic temperature range of the substrate.