Smart Card Options
Contactless Smart Cards
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Contactless Smart Cards
Rather than using a contact pad, Contactless Smart Cards use various short-range radio
technologies to “connect” to the printer. The printer moves the card to an antenna location on
the card path, and the encoding or decoding occurs. All other printer operations remain the
same.
Media Loading Orientation for Contactless Smart Cards
For contactless smart-cards, orientation is not a consideration, unless the card will be printed
on; see below.
Printing on MIFARE Contactless Smart Cards
When designing material to be printed on MIFARE Contactless Smart Cards, be sure the
printing will not be on the smart chip area (i.e., the printing on either side of the card must
not be on top of or underneath the smart chip area).
By looking at an unprinted card very carefully, it is possible to see the chip location (as in the
figure on the left below). If you print in that area, results will be unsatisfactory (in the figure on
the right, the “star” should have been a single solid color).
Printing on UHF RFID Contactless Smart Cards
There are no restrictions when designing material to be printed on UHF RFID Contactless
Smart Cards.
Smart Chip Location
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