Patent ID: 7751069

Claim:
A method for producing personalized greeting cards, comprising: receiving orders of greeting cards from one or more users, wherein each of the greeting cards is to be mailed to a recipient specified by the one or more users; receiving, from the one or more users, content to be printed on the greeting cards; separating the orders into batches of greeting cards; producing the batches of greeting cards using production equipment; printing a batch-separation symbol and the content received from the one or more users on one of the greeting cards in a batch of greeting cards, wherein the one of the greeting cards printed with the batch-separation symbol is to be mailed to a recipient; and separating the greeting cards into batches using the batch-separation symbol printed on the one of greeting cards in each batch, wherein the batch-separation symbol includes a machine-readable symbol and an alpha-numeric character, wherein a user scans the machine readable symbol from the first card and the last card of a batch; if the two scans confirm the matched batch number in the first card and the last card within the batch, the method generates a pass signal.