To provide a genuine/forgery discriminable printed matter which is applied to a valuable printed matter required to be prevented from being forged, such as a bank note, a stock certificate, securities, a traffic ticket, a card.

In the printed matter, a first message image (2) is printed by an optically variable ink on a surface of a substrate (1), a second message image (3) formed of a parallel-line pattern of a line drawing of an equal interval with an ink having a protrusion is lap printed on the first image (2) in so that the image (3) is partitioned to a background image part (4) and at least one message image part (5) in such a manner that the image part (4) and the at least one image part (5) are made of a parallel-line pattern in which arraying directions of the line drawings are different.