Method and apparatus for dynamic, on-demand creation of financial transaction cards having nonuniform data storage formats

摘要

A system and technique is disclosed for manufacturing multiple financial transaction cards substantially simultaneously even though their respective parameters, including the format of data in a readable/writable medium thereon, may vary from card to card. A card surface contains a writable/readable medium for storing variable data and human readable data. Variable data may be recorded on the writable/readable medium and may include an identifier which uniquely identifies the gift card from all other gift cards in the production set.