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Designing Labels
Designing an RFID Smart Label
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6. Click Finish.
7. Click on the label where you want to position the Keyboard Input field.
The text object is placed on the label and linked to the new variable. When you preview or
print the label, the suffix kg will be appended to the entered value on the right side.
Designing an RFID Smart Label
Overview
The concept of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) can be simplified to that of an
electronic bar code. First emerging in the 1980’s, RFID was primarily used to track objects in
industrial environments where bar codes were unable to sustain the harsh surroundings. Today,
RFID is being used to track proprietary assets, automate access control and has many more
additional fields of usage.
Some thermal printers have the ability to program a RFID tag at the same time as they are
printing the label. Two different technologies and their encoding methods are joined on the
same label. Of course a label must have embedded a RFID tag. The tag is paper thin, flexible
and small in size which allows it to be placed inconspicuously under the label. It consists of an
etched antenna and a tiny chip that can store ID number or your custom data in larger
quantities. This contrasts with a bar code label, which does not store any enhanced
information, but merely some code number.
RFID refers to technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify individual or groups
of items. The labeling software and ZebraDesigner driver support programming and printing
of RFID tags embedded in a label.
Note • You can use RFID functionality in the labeling software only if you have installed a
Zebra Driver with RFID support. Make sure you install the Zebra Driver for your RFID printer
before you design and print an RFID smart label. RFID functionality is only available with
ZebraDesigner Pro.