Zebra UHF RFID (Gen2) Card - RF proximity card

Gen 2 technology holds an ironic position in the world of ID cards. It has not been widely used for personal identification, but is the technology behind some of the largest, highest profile and most secure ID card programs in the world.

Zebra Technologies has manufactured and delivered thousands of ID card printers that support traditional high-frequency RFID encoding, and was one of the first companies to offer printers for producing Gen 2 ID cards. Zebra offers Gen 2 UHF encoding as an option for its ID card printers. UHF-enabled models use the same printer drivers and ribbons as the non-UHF models. All that's needed for RFID encoding are ID cards with embedded UHF Gen 2 chips, which are available from Zebra. The cards support all EPCglobal Gen 2 and ISO 18000-6C RFID security standards, and provide 96 bits of password-protected memory. UHFenabled printers can also be used to create non-RFID ID cards and maintain all their standard features, including support for magnetic stripe encoding, bar code printing, full-color printing and support for a variety of card materials.