System and method for date and culture based customizable cards for multifunction peripherals

A method comprising:

• receiving, via a network interface of a multifunction peripheral, one or more customizable card templates from an associated card template server;
• storing, in memory of a controller of the multifunction peripheral, the received customizable card templates;
• receiving, via a touchscreen user interface of the multifunction peripheral, a user input for customizing a selected card template;
• generating, by a processor of the controller, a customized card in accordance with the selected card template and the received user input;
• outputting, via an operation of the multifunction peripheral, the customized card in accordance with a user device control instruction.

A system comprising:

• a card template server configured to
• receive identifying information from each of one or more multifunction peripherals, and
• send culturally relevant customizable card templates to each multifunction peripheral based on the received identifying information;
• and
• a multifunction peripheral further comprising
• a document processing engine configured to render printed output from electronic image files,
• a touchscreen user interface configured to
• display one or more customizable card templates, and
• receive user input for selecting and customizing a selected card template, and
• an intelligent controller including a processor and memory,
• the memory configured to store the received customizable card templates, and
• the processor configured to
• generate an electronic image of a customized card in accordance with the selected card template and at least a portion of the received user input, and
• selectively control operation of the document processing engine to print the electronic image of the customized card.