Patent ID: 7340417

Claim:
A method in which a supplier provides to a consumer at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products and a packaging therefor to order, the method comprising the supplier: providing a production machine for manufacturing at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products; defining a plurality of product features of the at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products to be manufactured by the production machine; defining a plurality of package features of the packaging for the at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products to be manufactured by the production machine; collecting information from the consumer through a telephony or computer communications network via a user interface, the information relating to at least one of the defined product features of the at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products, said product feature including a plurality of first options and said information collected from the consumer identifying one of the plurality of first options; collecting information from the consumer through the communications network via a user interface, the information relating to at least one of the defined package features of the packaging for the at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products, said package feature including a plurality of second options coordinated with the consumer identified first option, said information collected from the consumer identifying one of the plurality of second options; receiving a purchase order from the consumer for the at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products with the packaging, said purchase order specifying the identified first option and the identified second options; producing, by the provided production machine, the at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products having the identified one of the plurality of first options and with the packaging having the identified one of the plurality of second options; and providing to the consumer the produced at least one of facial tissue, toilet tissue, paper towel, napkin, and baby wipe products having the identified first option and with the packaging having the identified second option in accordance with the information collected from the consumer.