the image from being erased and substituted with another image the unitary ticket file is sent to client 328 and printed on printer 322 for immediate issuance to person 306 in the alternative if time permits the ticket may be printed or otherwise fixed on a tangible ticket media and a remote location and mailed to an address specified by person 308 after being received by person 306 ticket 304 by be used to gain access to the specified event or service such as entry into area 314 by presentation to a gate keeper 310 as previously described encoded data on ticket 304 may be read by a ticket reading machine 332 if desired 0048 fig7 shows a portion 350 of a system like either of systems 100 or 300 described above or some combination thereof imaginary line 354 indicates that only a portion of an entire system is diagrammed a system with portion 350 may be used with a ticketing method wherein image data is not actually contained on ticket 354 instead the ticket includes a flag or identifier for an image that is retained in an image database such as database 334 shown in fig6 except for this difference the non transferable ticket may be issued in any suitable manner as described above an image of the ticketed person 356 may be obtained at the.