An apparatus for automatically issuing an identification card, such as a commutation ticket, airline ticket, credit card, driver's license or the like, which has information forming means having an information storage device for electromagnetically storing a coded information to be described on a web of paper to provide the identification card, a keyboard arrangement having a plurality of keys corresponding to the contents stored in the information storage device, a control device for selecting items from among the contents stored in the information storage device by operating the keyboard arrangement, and an information compiling device for compiling all of the coded information selected by the keyboard arrangement into a video signal information, a copying unit including a photoreceptor drum having the outer peripheral surface adapted to bear a latent image and an optical fiber tube which converts the video signal information into rays of light carrying the respective images of the coded information. The rays of light emitted from the optical fiber tube are projected onto the photoreceptor drum to form an image thereon, which image is electrostatically transferred onto the web of paper.