Hello, I'm Michael Feine. We're coming to you today from Zebra RFID laboratory. I want
to do a quick demonstration of the RXi4's ability to automatically
calibrate 400 pitch media. I'm going to walk you through that process, exactly how it
works, and we're going to show you doing that on two different tag types. One
that I have loaded now is the brand new belt from RaffleTag, this is NXP's
latest chip, the G2iL. And the other tag that I'm going to show you that I have in my
hand here is Alien's latest tag. This is called the squigglet and uses their kicks
three chip. So I have this tag loaded already, and the first thing I
need to do is calibrate for the label. Just like any other, you know, standard
media with RFID media we have to calibrate the label lanes so the printer
knows how long the label is. And I do that by just pressing this little
calibrate button right in the front of the printer. So I'm going to press this
button,
the printer feeds a few labels and it automatically calibrates that label. So
now the printer knows how long each tag is. The next step is I need to do the RFIE
calibrate. That's, it's important to realize that's different than just the
labeling calibrate. RFIE calibrate procedure actually sets commands,
actually sets parameters like RFID encode power and like the RFID element
settings that are required to encode this from our adaptive array technology.
So what I need to do there is remove one label. I need to remove a label so the
printer doesn't get confused and accidentally encode on a four-way tag. I
wanted to calibrate on the tag underneath the printer. And then I
initiate their RFID calibrate procedure from the front panel of the
printer. You go into the menu and I scroll to the left over to the command that
says RFID tag calendar. And I just press the run button, and as I press this the
printer back feeds the label into the printer. It's stepping in one millimeter
steps backward and throughout that process it's actually scanning through
each of the individual elements in the encoding. This is actually the patented,
the patent-pending Zebra encoding array that's inside this printer and this is
really what provides us the flexibility to to encode these inlays and to
automatically do this calibration procedure. It's inside this encoding
array. So you see the printer stepping through, it's finished calibrating, and
we're ready to go. So I don't like to waste RFID labels, so what I'm going to do is
replace this thing. Quickly wind this back into the printer and now we're ready to print. So
I have a label format, just a simple label format pre-loaded on my computer. I'm
going to go ahead and send that to the printer and I'm going to send five
printed in code, five tags. And there's a reason. So we
encoded five tags sequentially. Raffle deck G2IL belts. Brand new tape. So, great
demonstration, but next step is how difficult is that to switch to a
different type of media if I need to? Maybe I need to take a different item,
or maybe I had problems getting that that particular tagging and I need to change.
This is one of the real advantages of the adaptive encoding array. So I need to
change media types. Load the new squiggle from Alien.
And same procedure we went through before. First thing I need to do is
calibrate that label length because this is actually a little bit shorter label
than from the raffle deck bag and I do that by pressing the calibrate button.
And then next I need to press, I need to run the RFID calibrate button, and that
command is already up on the front panel so I don't need to scroll over to it
again. I can just initiate it right here.
And you see the same procedure as before, as the printer stepping back into the
printer, or, the media stepping back into the printer, calibrating that label.
Identifying the proper one of these elements to encode that tag in
the most efficient way possible. You'll see it's complete. And again, I don't really like to leave the media. So I'm going to roll
that back into the printer.
Close the printer. Then I'm actually going to send the exact same label format that I sent
before. I made no changes to this whatsoever because the printer controls
all the RFID settings. I don't need to have that in my form. And there's the exact
same label format, the exact same data encoded to the squiggler that we coded
to the G2iL belt. So great flexibility that really shows the power of our
adaptive array and the flexibility of the printer, not only for what media is
available today, but the media that's available tomorrow as well.