Numbering.....must be an easier way?

I am currently undergoing a small project, for a farming company, producing numbered potato cards that are used to differentiate between pallet stocks.
These cards are very basic black text, with a number (previously imprinted using a morgana rotary numbering machine, post press) the trouble is with these rotary numberers the numbers are small and faded, so i would like to print these numbers digitally, to keep them large and clear to read. The rest of the text on sheets is printed digitally so i was hoping to just add the number to each card and print in one pass.
So... my question is... is there an easier way in indesign than manually typing each number into the necessary box, i have 4500 cards to number so i am looking for the most efficient way to do so.
I am using Adobe CS4, on a G5 imac 10.6.4.

P Spier wrote:
Using Data Merge you set up the tempalte page with independent, not threaded, text frames, and put all the labels on the page (this will be a single record per page merge). Each record will contain the same quantity of numbers as there are labels on the sheet. It's up to you how you arrange those numbers.
I like to set up a spreadsheet for the numbering. For example if you need 240 labels 8-up, that works out to 30 sheets. That means you need a matrix on the spreadsheet of 30 rows and 8 columns. Inthe first column number down from 1 to 30, in the second from 31 to 60. and so forth. Excel can autofill boththe coumns and the rows, so if you type 1, 2, 3 into the fisrt column, excell can fill it the rest of the way to 30 just by dragging. Do the same thing for the second column, the select the two columns and drag to the right to fill the rest of the table (Excel needs enough data to establish the pattern, but then can do the whole table at once). Add a new row at the top after filling to hold the field names for the data merge, and export to .csv. Use the .csv file as the source for the merge, drag one field tag into each of the number frames, and run the merge. Your labels will be sequentially stacked after cutting.
The key to this method is doing the calculation to get the correct number of rows to handle the total count.
Um... Doesn't the output equipment play a part? If the print device can or can't print last-to-first, wouldn't that affect the required numbering sequence; i.e., create the CSV in ascending or descending order?
Regards,
Peter
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