Patent ID: 8720774

Claim:
A card personalization system comprising: a card personalization device comprising: a housing at least partially enclosing: a card receiver configured to receive a data card for a card user; a control system connected to the card receiver, the control system configured to receive personalization information for the card user; an encoder system connected to the control system, the encoder system configured to encode the data card with at least some portion of the personalization information; a card reader connected to the control system, the card reader configured to read magnetic fingerprint information from the data card, the magnetic fingerprint information comprising information indicative of intrinsic characteristics of a magnetic stripe of the data card; and the control system configured to store the magnetic fingerprint information; and a server configured to: send, to the card personalization device, the personalization information for the card user; receive, from the card personalization device, the magnetic fingerprint information for the data card associated with the card user; and store the magnetic fingerprint information in conjunction with a record for the card user.