Automatic verified embossed card package production methods

A method of automatically producing verified embossed card packages, comprising the steps of:

• preparing cards with machine readable indicia;
• automatically applying labels with information relating to card activation to the cards at a location spaced from the machine readable indicia;
• mounting the cards with applied labels to matching carriers with information that matches the machine readable indicia;
• and
• mailing the matching carrier with matched mounted cards with applied labels to a card user.

In a method of producing an embossed card package with a verified carrier including the steps of prestoring carrier information apart from a carrier to be used to print carriers and accessing the prestored carrier information to print the prestored carrier information on the carrier, the improvement comprising the steps of:

• reading from each carrier information printed on the carrier;
• comparing the carrier information read from said carrier with the prestored carrier information to determine if there is a mismatch;
• and
• automatically identifying each carrier as incorrect in response to the comparison of the read carrier information with the prestored carrier information determining there is a mismatch.

A method of automatically producing verified embossed card packages, comprising the steps of:

• automatically embossing the cards with selected card information;
• automatically checking cards for correctness;
• automatically rejecting incorrect cards;
• passing correct cards to a labeler;
• and
• automatically applying removable informational labels to the correct cards passed to the labeler.

A method of automatically producing verified embossed card packages with cards mounted to mailing forms, comprising the steps of:

• obtaining card information for each of the cards;
• sensing a code printed on the carrier;
• automatically determining which of a plurality of different possible types of codes on the carriers is the code sensed from each carrier;
• decoding from each carrier the code in accordance with the type of code determined for each carrier to obtain carrier information;
• comparing the card information for each card with the obtained carrier information to determine if there is a match;
• rejecting cards which do not match the carrier information decoded from the carrier;
• and
• mounting cards to carriers which have carrier information decoded from said plurality of codes that matches the card information for each of the cards to be mounted to the carrier.

A method of producing verified credit card packages, each having at least one card with card information mounted to a mailing form with carrier information corresponding to the card information of the mounted card, comprising the steps of:

• rejecting cards which have incorrect card information independently of rejection of carriers with incorrect carrier information;
• rejecting carriers which have incorrect carrier information printed thereon independently of rejection of cards with incorrect card information;
• and
• accumulating card package production information including accumulating the number of cards rejected and accumulating the number of carriers rejected independently of the step of accumulating the number of cards rejected with incorrect card information.