User manual

Designing Labels

Designing an RFID Smart Label

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Support for RFID Tags

With the labeling software you can program RFID tags of different manufacturers. It is

important to use a ZebraDesigner printer driver. You cannot program RFID tags, if you do not

use the ZebraDesigner Driver.

ZebraDesigner Driver will let the labeling software know which types of RFID tags the printer

supports.

Not all tag types are always available. The kind of RFID tags that will be available depends on

the selected printer model. There are generally two types of tags:

• ISO tags (TagIt, iCode, ISO...): These are block oriented tags. The data can be encoded in

multiple blocks.

• UHF tags (EPC): The data is encoded in one block of data.

You can input content for RFID tags using different methods, depending on the tag type (UHF

or ISO).

For UHF tags

Data type: Data type of the selected tag can be specified here.

Data source: Incoming data that is encoded in the tag can be a fixed value or acquired from

some variable, defined in the label.

Data size: The currently used data is previewed here. You can see the amount of space still

available in the tag. The occupancy of the tag is seen graphically with growing bar and

numerically with the digit, explaining the number of already used bytes.

Block locked: If you set the block as locked, the data will be permanently encoded into the tag.

You will not be able to erase this block to re-program it with some other value. Use this option

with caution!

For ISO tags

The blocks that are dimmed and inaccessible are reserved blocks that cannot be used.

Block Number: The successive number of block in the tag.

Data source: Select where the data block will receive the data from. It can be Fixed, where

you will manually type in the data or can be Variable, where the value is acquired from some

variable defined in the label.

Data: Type in the tag value manually, if the selected data type is Fixed. Select the variable

defined in the label, if the selected data type is Variable. If your variable length is greater than

the block size, the next block will automatically be reserved for the data.

Size: The currently used data is previewed here. You can see the amount of space still

available in the tag. The occupancy of the tag is seen graphically with growing bar and

numerically with the digit, explaining the number of already used bytes.