Patent ID: 8805745

Claim:
A method using a computer system for centralized printing of image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing items, said computer system comprising at least one computer device, said method comprising: uploading at least one image according to a respective user-provided instruction; downloading to a computer-readable medium, a plurality of encrypted, image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing items, each respective image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing item comprising: said at least one image that has been uploaded according to said respective user-provided instruction, a respective identification of the respective image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing item, and a respective representation of machine-readable, computer-based postage indicia for a user-specified amount of postage, the representation of machine-readable, computer-based postage indicia comprising a representation of customized, information-based postage label indicia; decrypting the plurality of encrypted computer-based postage-indicia-bearing items; for each said identification, rendering a respective invisible ink representation of a respective distinct printable pattern, said rendering comprising an application by a print-rendering device of invisible ink in said respective distinct printable pattern, said application of invisible ink in said respective distinct printable pattern characterized by a position relative to a particular location on a perimeter of a computer-based postage-indicia-bearing item, or an application density of invisible ink; for each respective image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing item of said plurality of encrypted, image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing items: creating a respective relationship between the respective identification of the respective image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing item and the respective item-specific printable pattern for application by the print-rendering device of invisible fluorescent ink on the respective image-customized, computer-based, postage-indicia-bearing item, and storing the respective relationship in a memory accessible by the computer system.