Patent ID: 7339690
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An identification card printer, comprising: a print mechanism adapted to deposit material on to a plastic card; a network adapter configured to couple to a network; a print drive module configured to control the print mechanism in response to a drive module input; a client/server module coupled to the network adapter and configured to communicate with the network in accordance with a protocol, produce client requests for data from remote servers, receive incoming data from the remote servers in response to the client requests, receive server requests for data from remote clients, and serve outgoing data to the remote clients in response to the server requests; a data parser adapted to route data to applications of the printer to which they relate; a smart card encoder configured to encode data to the plastic card; and a smart card encoding application configured to encode smart card encoding data received from the data parser to the plastic card using the smart card encoder.