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Printronix SL5000e Reference Manual

Printronix SL5000e Reference Manual

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  • Page 1 RFID Labeling Reference Manual ™ ™ SL5000 and T5000 Smart Label RFID Thermal Printers...
  • Page 2 Useful utility programs The CD-ROM is located in a plastic pocket in the back cover. Do not discard this guide. If you move or pack the printer in the future, you will need to follow the instructions in this guide.
  • Page 3 SL5000 and T5000 Smart Label RFID Thermal Printers RFID Labeling Reference Manual...
  • Page 4 Printronix makes no representations or warranties of any kind regarding this material, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Printronix shall not be held responsible for errors contained herein or any omissions from this material or for any damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental or consequential, in connection with the furnishing, distribution, performance or use of this material.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Smart Label Characteristics ... 10 Transitioning From UCC/GTIN Applications Using Printronix Software Migration Tools (SMT)... 11 How Printronix Makes It Easy ... 11 How It Works ... 11 How To Order More Smart Labels... 12 Printronix Professional Services ... 12 What We Can Do ...
  • Page 6 Table of Contents RFID PPI1 Commands ...39 Get Tag Unique ID ...39 Set Tag Type ...39 Read Tag ...40 Write Tag ...41 Host Verification ...42 PPI1 EPC Programming Examples...43 Software Migration Tools (SMT)...44 Tools List...44 Selecting The Tools ...46 Error Messages ...47 Troubleshooting...48...

  • Page 7: Rfid Smart Label Application

    Printronix SL5000e MP Multi-protocol RFID printer, supporting Class 0/0+, Class 1, and Class 1.19 RFID tags and labels • Printronix SL5000e C1 Class 1 RFID printer, supporting Class 1 RFID tags and labels • Printronix T5000e SR Smart Ready RFID printer, upgradeable with either: •...

  • Page 8: Chapter 1 Overview

    The intent of the kit is to provide a complete environment for the printing and encoding of RFID smart labels right out of the box. Printronix has specifically designed this kit to help you fast track your RFID printer application through the use of a suite of Software Migration Tools (SMT).

  • Page 9: What To Expect When Running Your Rfid Application

    Static electricity can damage the smart labels. Open the media cover of the printer and touch an unpainted metal part of the printer before you handle smart labels. This will discharge any static electricity that may have built up on your hands.

  • Page 10: Smart Label Characteristics

    EPC Class 0+ tags – 96 data bits Read/Write NOTE: For Class 0+ tags, the AWID multi-protocol reader used by Printronix enforces the EPC format in the following manner: • For 96–bit data, the two most significant bits must be 0.

  • Page 11: Transitioning From Ucc/Gtin Applications Using Printronix Software Migration Tools (Smt)

    By simply selecting the desired Software Migration Tool from the printer’s control panel, you automatically enable the printer to create an RFID smart label from your existing software application even if it does not have the functionality to program RFID tags.

  • Page 12: How To Order More Smart Labels

    Printronix Professional Services What We Can Do Printronix can partner with you on your RFID pilot project to make your existing software applications RFID/smart label capable. We specialize in smart label print and apply configuration and integration, RFID pilot implementation, and transition from RFID pilots to full production rollouts.

  • Page 13: Hardware/Infrastructure Considerations

    The readers you purchase must be compatible with the smart labels programmed by the printer. Specifically, they should be EPC Class 0, Class 0+, Class 1, and Class 1.19 compliant. Fixed position readers and their antennas can be purchased from ®...

  • Page 14: Useful Industry Web Links

    Chapter 1 Useful Industry Web Links Useful Industry Web Links Reference Material Printronix, Inc. www.printronix.com Alien Technology Corporation www.alientechnology.com Applied Wireless Identifications Group, Inc. www.awid.com Auto-ID Labs www.autoidlabs.org EPC Tag Data Translation www.autoidlabs.org/cambridge/TDS EPCglobal, Inc. www.epcglobalinc.org RFID Journal www.rfidjournal.com Uniform Code Council, Inc.

  • Page 15: Smart Label Development

    Incorporate RFID commands into new or existing Printronix ® programs. Command details start on page 24. • Incorporate RFID commands into new or existing ZPL™ programs. By selecting the Printronix PPI1 emulation you can seamlessly upgrade from Zebra™ printers. Command details start on page 39.

  • Page 16: Rfid Control Menu

    1 to 10 Disable Notes: * = Default. Italicized items appear only when Admin User is set to Enable (in the PRINTER CONTROL menu). Display item only. Appears only if Tag Type is set to Matrics2020 64 or Matrics2020 96. Enable...
  • Page 17 Disable * Error Type Msg Enable Duplicate 1 to 20 8 to 32 Class 0 Class 0+ Class 1.19 Enable Enable Notes: * = Default. Italicized items appear only when Admin User is set to Enable (in the PRINTER CONTROL menu).

  • Page 18: Rfid Control Menu Items

    In None mode, no specific action is taken when a tag fails to be programmed. In Stop mode, when a tag fails to be programmed, the printer will halt and display the error message “RFID Error: Check Media.” The label is discarded and reprinting of the label (if desired) must be initiated from the host.
  • Page 19 RFID CONTROL Menu Items Tag Write Cnt This menu item displays on the control panel’s LCD the number of tags written since the last Clear Tag Stat operation has been initiated. (See “Clear Tag Stat” below.) Failed Tag Cnt This menu item displays on the control panel’s LCD the number of failed tag write attempts since the last Clear Tag Stat operation has been initiated.
  • Page 20 Table 1. Printed Overstrike Error Messages Error Message Tag R/W Err x The printer software attempted to write to or read from the Check media RFID tag, but the RFID encoder indicated that the tag could not be written to or read from.

  • Page 21: Admin User Menu Items

    Admin User Menu Items To see these menu items, set Admin User to Enable in the PRINTER CONTROL menu. (Refer to the User’s Manual .) IMPORTANT Admin User menu items should only be used by authorized personnel. Tag Type This menu item selects the tag type in use. The following is a list of tag types available.

  • Page 22: Auto Retry

    The custom tag menus allow the RFID encoder to work with tag types that are not listed in the Tag Type menu item. NOTE: Printronix cannot guarantee the performance of tag types not certified by Printronix. When Custom Tag is set to Disable, the settings in the custom tag...
  • Page 23 Admin User Menu Items When it is set to Enable, the RFID encoder uses the settings in the custom tag menus, which must be set to match the characteristics of the custom tag. When it is set to Duplicate, the settings of the selected Tag Type menu item are copied into the custom tag menus.

  • Page 24: Rfid Pgl Commands

    Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands RFID PGL Commands IMPORTANT For all examples make sure Label Length in the QUICK SETUP menu matches the physical length of the installed media. RFWTAG Purpose The RFWTAG command is used to program an RFID tag (embedded in a smart label) using structured data format.
  • Page 25 3. For dynamic incremental data length ;IDF n ; format ; length A decimal number specifying the bit length of a field within a tag. The maximum length for each DFn field is 64 bits. DF n Optional parameter to indicate this field has dynamic data.
  • Page 26 Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands datafield The static data of this static field. It is a mandatory parameter of bit field with static data. Identifies this field is an incremental bit field. STEP Specifies that the incremental data field will use the step method.
  • Page 27 NOTE: 1. There should be no more than one RFWTAG command per form. 2. The RFWTAG command cannot be mixed with RFWRITE in the same form. 3. Each field structure must be specified in a single line and in the order it appears in the RFID tag from MSB bits to LSB bits (left to right).
  • Page 28 Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands Example 2 Same as Example 1, except the EPC number is broken into its component parts. Assume that the SGTIN–64 value has the Header = 2d, Filter Value = 5d, EPC Manager Index = 15383d, Object Class = 703710d or 0xABCDE, and the Serial Number = 0123456d.
  • Page 29 ~AF1;<DF5> ~NORMAL ~EXECUTE;SGTIN–64 ~DF1;*10* ~DF2;*5* ~DF3;*15383* ~DF4;*ABCDE* ~DF5;*0000123456* ~AF1;<DF5> ~NORMAL Example 4 This example shows how to program a roll of 1500 smart labels with SGTIN–64 values, where the Header = 2d, Filter Value = 5d, EPC Manager Index = 15383d, Object Class = 703710d or 0xABCDE, and the Serial Number starting from 0000000 to 0001499d.

  • Page 30: Rfrtag

    Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands ~CREATE;SGTIN–96;432 RFWTAG;96 8;B;*00110000* 3;D;*5* 3;D;*6* 20;D;*123456* 24;D;*7777777* 38;D;*123456* STOP ~EXECUTE;SGTIN–96;1 ~NORMAL RFRTAG Purpose To read the content of an RFID tag (embedded in a smart label) into a dynamic field. This command cannot be mixed with the RFREAD command. Mode CREATE Format...
  • Page 31 format NOTE: 1. Multiple RFRTAG commands are allowed in the same form but the same DFn field cannot be defined multiple times. 2. The DF field length is restricted to 64 bits and must be a multiple of 8 bits. The sum of all field lengths must be equal to the tag size.

  • Page 32: Verify

    DF1 merge. VERIFY Purpose Request the printer to send to the host the ASCII representation of a dynamic field. The dynamic field could be one of AFn, BFn, or DFn, but cannot be RFn. Mode...
  • Page 33 A mandatory parameter to specify an ASCII string of characters, which is followed by the RFID data, to be sent by the printer to the host. Delimiter designating the start and end of a character string. Replace (D) with any printable character, except the SFCC and the slash character (/).
  • Page 34 Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands Example 1 This example requests the printer to send to the host the content of the RFID tag, in hexadecimal format, both before and after the RFWTAG command writes data to the tag. Also, the label is not moved.
  • Page 35 ~NORMAL A5A500005D055E04 A5A50000000550D4 Example 3 This example requests the printer to program a roll of 2000 smart labels using the RFWTAG command with incremental field. Then, it sends the actual data from each of the 2000 tags to the host.

  • Page 36: Write Tag

    Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands Write Tag IMPORTANT This command is still supported but no longer in development. We recommend you develop your application using the RFWTAG command as defined on page 24. Purpose To program non-incremental data into an RFID tag (embedded in a smart label).
  • Page 37 data string. If this option is used, the datafield is ignored, and dynamic data must be entered via the RF command in the EXECUTE mode. The length of the dynamic data must be equal to L . LOCK; Optional parameter to write-protect the data.

  • Page 38: Read Tag

    Chapter 2 RFID PGL Commands Read Tag IMPORTANT This command is still supported but no longer in development. We recommend you develop your application using the RFRTAG command as defined on page 30. Read Tag is not a command, but an element of the ALPHA and BARCODE commands.

  • Page 39: Rfid Ppi1 Commands

    RFID PPI1 Commands IMPORTANT For all examples make sure Label Length in the QUICK SETUP menu matches the physical length of the installed media. Get Tag Unique ID Purpose Read the unique identification number of the RFID tag (embedded in the smart label). ^RI x Format Comments...

  • Page 40: Read Tag

    Chapter 2 RFID PPI1 Commands Read Tag Purpose This command allows data from the RFID tag (embedded in the smart label) to merge into any previously defined dynamic data field. It is equivalent to the Field Number command (^FN) except that the data come from the RFID tag.

  • Page 41: Write Tag

    Set this flag to 1 to read data from the tag without moving the label. The printer may adjust the label position while it reads data from the tag, but this adjustment will reverse before any subsequent normal label movement. Even if this flag is set to 1, other commands (i.e., alpha or...

  • Page 42: Host Verification

    Chapter 2 RFID PPI1 Commands protect data format 0 (ASCII) or 1 (hex). The default is 0. reserved Host Verification Purpose This command sends back the data in a ^FN (Field Number) field to the host. Format ^HV x , y < ASCII > <...

  • Page 43: Ppi1 Epc Programming Examples

    PPI1 EPC Programming Examples IMPORTANT For all examples make sure Label Length in the QUICK SETUP menu matches the physical length of the installed media. Example 1 This programming example programs data into an RFID tag and prints the encodation onto a smart label. //Begin ZPL form.

  • Page 44: Software Migration Tools (Smt)

    RFID tag. Data written to the RFID tag is right justified and zero padded. Checksum data calculated by the printer is not encoded onto the tag. Bar code data beyond the 16th digit is truncated without an error message.
  • Page 45 EAN8: Copies data from an EAN8 bar code to an RFID tag. EAN 8+2 and EAN 8+5 variants are both supported. Data written to the RFID tag is right justified and zero padded. Checksum data calculated by the printer is not encoded onto the RFID tag. •...

  • Page 46: Selecting The Tools

    8. Press ↵ to select it. 9. Press ↓ and ↵ at the same time to lock the ↵ key, then press PAUSE to take the printer offline. 10. Press PAUSE again to put the printer online. until QUICK SETUP displays.

  • Page 47: Error Messages

    Error Messages The RFID encoder can detect a number of errors. When one of these errors occurs, the RFID encoder alerts the printer to perform the currently selected error action (see “Error Handling” on page 18) and display the appropriate error message on the control panel’s LCD (see Table 2).

  • Page 48: Troubleshooting

    If you are having trouble with the RFID encoder, consult Table 3 for a list of symptoms and possible solutions. Table 3. Troubleshooting the RFID Encoder Symptom No communication between the printer and the reader Tag failed Inconsistent results The RFID encoder works, but it does not meet expectations Solution 1.
  • Page 49 Troubleshooting Selecting The Tools...
  • Page 50 Chapter 2 Troubleshooting...
  • Page 52 For technical assistance, contact your Distributor/VAR/Reseller for service. For further assistance, contact the Printronix Customer Support Center. Printronix Customer Support Center Americas Europe, Middle East, and Africa Asia Pacific Web site: http://www.printronix.com/public/servicessupport/default.aspx Printronix Supplier Center Americas Europe, Middle East, and Africa Asia Pacific Web site: http://www.printronix.com/public/supplies/default.aspx...

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