Under the Label1 node in the Project Pane select the RFIDTags node, either right-click and select the Add RFID Tag from the menu or double-click to bring up the Add RIFD Tag dialog.

 

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In the Name field, enter a name My First RFID Tag, and press the OK button.

 

You will see the RFID Tag is added as a child node below the RIFDTags node.  You can in fact, have many RFID Tags defined here but each must be for a different Tag Type.  The way RFID Tag encoding works is the RFID Tag Type here is matched to the RFID Tag Type of the paper stock and the first one to match in the list is used to encode the data in the RFID Tag on the label.  So in this example, we need to use UHF EPC Class  1, Gen2 as the 4x6 paper stock is defined to have an  RFID Tag type of UHF EPC Class  1, Gen2.

 

 

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Each Tag Type requires different field data within the RFID Tag and this is based on the format of the RFID Tag.   In this example, SSCC-96 is the format standard selected and it required three fields.  The information to be encoded in these fields is documented in the EPCglobal Tag Data Standard TDS.  For an SSCC-96 the Filter Value is number from 0 to 7, the Company Prefix is a number from 999,999 –999,999,999,999  and the Serial Number is  a number in the range 99,999,999,999 –99,999 where the total bit length of the Company Prefix and the Serial Number must be less than or equal to 58 bits.  For our test will set the Filter Value to 2, Company Prefix to 123456 and the Serial Number to 12345678901234 as shown above.

 

The last step to is configure the bar code printer as described in the next section.