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RFID Journal - Printed RFID Tags Still Several Years Away - RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Technology News & Features: "Industry leaders at the Printed RFID conference agreed that much research remains to be done before printed tags become commercially available and can be printed directly on packaging.

June 12, 2007--At IntertechPira's Printed RFID conference, held earlier this month in Frankfurt, Germany, industry leaders said that although the technology required for printing RFID tags is slowly maturing, a good deal of research still remains to be done before printed tags can be offered commercially--and before they can be printed directly onto packaging. Once these two milestones are achieved--at a reasonable price--analysts believe RFID tagging will become pervasive throughout supply chains for almost every type of good.

Klaus Dimmler, conference chairman and founder of OrganicID--which is working to develop a low-cost technology to produce printable electronic RFID tags made with organic inks--summed up the feeling in the air by saying, 'The industry is making good progress on materials. They're looking better and better.' Dimmler added that printed antennas are now standard fare, with some companies beginning to demonstrate circuits created with polymers in clean-room environments. "

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