Looking at using RFID printers to print labels that can be tracked. Does anyone have any experience doing this and/or tips?
Oh wow, I created a proof of concept for this using PlanetPress … at least a decade ago. I have searched through my archives but could not find it. As far as I remember the desktop RFID printer we were using at the time simply required a chunk of ZPL code to be sent for each label, which I believe we achieved through a script in Workflow and then sending that chunk of code in passthrough mode to the device.
But honestly, I’m not even sure I remember correctly… it was that long ago…
We never went any further with the technology because it was, at the time, horribly slow.
I might be totally outside of this conversation but if ZPL is used…wouldn’t that be generating a PDF and outputting it, in Workflow, using Print Using a windows driver which said driver being a ZPL driver?
This should work for print, but what about the RFID encoding?
I am afraid that it’s the extent of my understanding of ZPL (RFID)…
I have printed to regular Zebra printers using the Print using Windows Driver plugin which outputs ZPL. I have been told that the RFID is different but I really don’t know what is different. Just know that solution I was told about the forms are not designed in PlanetPress Connect. I would like to avoid using the other designer and use PlanetPress Connect.
Your best bet at this point would be to contact their support and ask if you only need the printer and a specific Windows printer driver. If so, then next question would be what is required as far as data context? Barcode, plain text data, etc…?