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A card printing and dispensing system located at the venue of an ongoing or recently completed entertainment event and including a video display monitor, a customer interface, a printer, and a computer control. A customer interested in purchasing a card selects using the customer interface from a va

A card printing and dispensing system located at the venue of an ongoing or recently completed entertainment event and including a video display monitor, a customer interface, a printer, and a computer control. A customer interested in purchasing a card selects using the customer interface from a variety of options displayed on the video monitor a desired card unique to the particular ongoing or recently completed entertainment event for printing and dispensing by the system. The system is particularly suited to printing and dispensing unique baseball cards which would include information corresponding to an individual game or series of games and available only at the venue where the individual game or series of games were actually played.

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A card printing and dispensing device located at a venue of an entertainment event and operable by an operator, comprising: (a) control means; (b) an operator interface in communication with said control means for displaying control options to the operator and for accepting control instructions from

A card printing and dispensing device located at a venue of an entertainment event and operable by an operator, comprising: (a) control means; (b) an operator interface in communication with said control means for displaying control options to the operator and for accepting control instructions from the operator; (c) a source of information regarding events that occurred during an ongoing or recently completed entertainment event, said information being updated as said entertainment event progresses and said information being independent of said control instructions accepted from the operator; (d) a supply of card blanks; (e) a printer in communication with said control means, for receiving said card blanks from said supply of card blanks, and for printing a subset of said information regarding the ongoing or recently completed entertainment event on said card blanks to create a printed card having independent and enduring value memorializing said subset of said information regarding the entertainment event; and (f) dispenser means for receiving said printed card from said printer and for dispensing said printed card to the operator for subsequent sale.