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