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2 rfid in a printer, Howtorfid, 3 hf technology – Avery Dennison RFID User Manual

Page 8: 1 introduction, 2 supported technologies

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HowToRFID

Revision: 13

Date: 31 August 2009

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1.3 HF Technology

Feature / Classification

Supported standards / variants /
options

Notes

Regions / Frequencies

global: 13.56 MHz

HF protocols / standards

ISO 15963

ISO 18000-3-Mode 1

Supported transponders
(tags / chips)

Infineon my-d

NXP I-Code 1

NXP I-Code SLI

NXP I-Code EPC

NXP I-Code UID

TI Tag-it HF ISO

Addressable tag data tag
fields

User data (block data)

UID

AFI (*1)

DSFID (*1)

EAS-Bit

Operations

Data field specific

User data (block data): R / W

AFI: W

DSFID: W (*1)

EAS-Bit: W / L (*1)

R = read content of data field

W= write / change content of data field

L = lock (write protect) data field

U = unlock (remove write protection)

Tag data encoding
standards

n/a

Special features

Chip protection feature (64-0x + ALX
only)

*1): printer firmware >= Vx.34

2 RFID in a printer

2.1 Introduction

A RFID capable printer from Avery Dennison can be viewed as a normal label printer extended by RFID specific
parts (an RFID reader and an antenna). These parts are available as RFID-Kit for AVERY printer (compare table
1).

In addition to that you need smart labels. Smart labels are labels that are combined with an RFID tag. On the one
hand these labels can be used as normal labels to print human readable information on it and on the other hand as
RFID tags to read/write data in their memory.

2.2 Supported Technologies

Currently supported tags operate at either 13.56 MHz (HF) or 915/869 MHz (UHF). The following is a steady
growing list of supported tag types from different vendors.