Printronix T5000 setup guide What To Expect When Running Your Rfid Application

Chapter 1 What To Expect When Running Your RFID Application

•One 450 m thermal premium wax ribbon

•Media starter kit (100 4 inch x 6 inch standard labels, 50 m thermal premium wax ribbon, and a printhead cleaning pen)

•Programming manuals

•Smart Label Developer’s Quick Setup Guide (this manual)

•Application and reference notes (this chapter)

•Technical support

•Printronix’s PrintNet® Enterprise: a web-enabled remote network print management system that provides instantaneous visibility to every network printer and allows users to configure simultaneously an unlimited number of Printronix printers. This edition of PrintNet Enterprise also supports management of the additional RFID UHF encoder capabilities.

We are proud to partner with you as you embark on your RFID journey!

What To Expect When Running Your RFID Application

Factors Affecting Smart Label Performance

Smart labels are based on an EEPROM technology that requires some time to program. This minor pause between labels may be noticed by the user. This time is necessary to better ensure consistent quality and improved reliability.

When dealing with smart labels, it is possible that an occasional RFID tag may require to be written and verified more than once (retry) before being considered acceptable. In this event each retry time will be added to the inter-label pause.

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