Clear Inlay
NFC Inlay with a transparent PET layer used as the substrate.
Glossary
Technical terms used in Connected Things
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Bleed Line
A virtual line on a printed product indicating the maximum printable area prior to die cutting. -
Bulk Data
Bulk data describes when data does not change for each item. Bulk data is in contrast to . -
Delivery Format
A description of the physical format of tags. Formats include roll, sheet, or individually cut. -
Direct Transfer Printing
A print technology that directly heats the substrate. Often used for card printing. -
Label Die Cut
A label that has been individually cut out along its liner. -
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)
A hard, durable plastic material used to make durable NFC tags. Other Resources Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene – Wikipedia -
1-Up Tags
A layout of tags on a roll when there is only one tag along the width of the roll. -
Advanced Card Systems (ACS)
Manufacturer of NFC hardware. -
Correlated Tag Encoding
An NFC encoding method that matches variable printed data on a physical tag to the data encoded to the NFC... -
Clone Tag
A process to duplicate a physical tag so it appears the same to software. -
CMYK Colors
Color model that consists of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black). Other Resources CMYK Color Model – Wikipedia -
Aluminum (AL)
A material often used for NFC antennas. -
C#/.NET
Microsoft .NET programming language and framework. -
Bad Tag
A tag that is not readable by a device. Related -
Cut Line
A virtual line on a printed product indicating the approximate location of a die cut after printing. -
Application Programming Interface (API)
A connection point to an online system used by remote clients -
Action
What happens on the device when a tag is interacted with. -
Identity
An identity, or ID for short, is a that uniquely represents an item within a set of related items. IDs... -
Device
An electronic device that can start the communication with either a tag or another device.