Paxar guarantees 100% read rate on RFID

Paxar Corporation, a global supplier of bar code, RFID and identification technologies for the retail supply chain and the supplier of Monarch brand products and services, today announced its groundbreaking Smart Label Performance Guarantee. The program offers users of Monarch Class 1 RFID labels and tags that are encoded with the Monarch 9855 RFID printer / encoder and users of Monarch’s Q-Service for RFID, a 110% money back guarantee for any labels that prove to be unreadable. The Monarch Smart Label Performance Guarantee is the strongest statement yet that Paxar’s RFID products are performing reliably at customer locations.
"Read rates of RFID labels are critical. One of the issues the industry has dealt with has been a high failure rate of the antennas and chips in the labels," says Rick Bauer, Senior Director, RFID Technical Research. "At Paxar, we have solved this problem. As an integral part of our ‘Smart Label’ production process, we test each chip to make sure it is ‘live’ at least twice. We not only discard any chips that fail, we also discard chips that exhibit ‘low performance’ characteristics so they never make it out of our factory. When the user runs our RFID labels through our Monarch 9855-RFID printer/ encoder, the label is tested yet again. If it fails this time, the printer overstrikes it with an aggressive bar pattern, making it obvious that the label is not good."
"With our Monarch Smart Labels undergoing three separate rounds of tests, we are so sure that users will achieve 100% read rates, we are offering a full refund, PLUS an additional 10%, for any label returned to us for inspection that could not be programmed by the Monarch printer/ encoder, or cannot be read. With this industry-first program, users have a no risk investment in Smart Label technology, something that can’t be found anywhere else. More importantly, users know that smart labels from Paxar will be readable, and that they won’t experience the high failure rates we’ve heard about elsewhere that could be disastrous to their RFID implementation."