Patent ID: 7333873

Claim:
A method for providing cards to be applied to a carrier, wherein the cards are arranged in a plurality of card magazines and may be drawn from the plurality of card magazines, wherein cards of a known card type are arranged in a card magazine, and wherein information regarding the card type is associated with the card magazine, the method comprising: (a) reading the carrier, the carrier containing data about the card type to be applied to the carrier; (b) receiving information specifying the card type of the card to be drawn on the basis of the data read from the carrier; (c) on the basis of the received information, selecting at least one of the plurality of card magazines; (d) drawing a card from the at least one selected card magazine; and (e) outputting the card drawn from the at least one selected card magazine for subsequent processing together with the information about the card type associated with the at least one selected card magazine from which the card is drawn to allow control of the subsequent processing based on the outputted information.