Avery Dennison RFID - Manual (Page 14)

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Revision: 13 Date: 31 August 2009
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2.4.4 Using pre qualified supplies
RFID starter kits
Avery Dennison offers RFID starter kits for the RFID printers. The starter kit contains also RFID supplies (labels).
For those supplies a pre qualification was made and the parameters for adjusting the printer to this supply are
available on the supply data sheet. The supply is referenced by an Avery article number. If there is no data sheet
included in the supply package, please ask your reseller or the technical support team for the supply data sheets.
Application requires the use of another inlay?
Avery Dennison publishes a document called “RFID Label Design & Printer Setup Guide”. The content of this
document is the essential extract of an intensive inlay qualification process. Goal of that process is, to find the
optimum label design parameters and printer setup parameters for an “optimized” label.
It’s highly recommended to use the parameters determined in the RFID inlay qualification process for the
processing of inlays in the printer.
For further details see section 4.2…
2.4.5 Finding and defining the optimum coupling position (the “Hotspot”)
If the position of the hotspot measured from the beginning of the label is close to the relative position of the
antenna, little or no material movement between RFID processing and printing is necessary. This leads to an
optimal performance (throughput).
But, due to shielding / coverage reasons this may be not the best position for coupling!
UHF Technology
Printer Position of the center-line of the
UHF antenna relative to print head
(dot-line) Inlay placement window (+/-
offset from ideal position)
64-0X 62.0 mm +/- 48 mm
AP 5.4 46.5 mm +/- 16 mm
ALX 92x / DPM 50.0 mm TBD (depending on dispensing
mode, rewinder etc.)
PEM n/a n/a
Table 4 – Antenna position relative to print head
HF Technology
Printer Position of the center-line of the HF antenna relative to
print head (dot-line)
64-0X 62 mm
AP 5.4 n/a
ALX 92x / DPM 80 mm
PEM n/a
Table 5 – Antenna position relative to print head