A machine for the mechanical personalization of supports of the type identification card, comprising a mechanical personalization group of the cards adapted to interact with a card to be mechanically personalized so as to form, on a surface of the card, strings of symbols, and a moving and positioning device of the cards to be mechanically personalized with respect to the mechanical personalization group. The moving and positioning device of the cards includes a pair of elements belt-like extending and jointly movable along a first direction of a plane containing the card to be personalized, said belt-like elements being arranged at a mutual distance, in a second direction orthogonal to the plane, such as to allow said pair of belt-like elements to receive, accommodate and hold therebetween by friction the card.
