You Are What You Ship

Second, it will be difficult for most label and integration machinery to recognize and deal with defective transponders in the process of adding them to labels. While former abysmal UHF transponder defect rates of 15-30 percent have improved with Gen2 products, these are essentially electronic components, and will always contain a certain level of defects in a supply roll. Dry (non-adhesive) inlays are always integrated onto the carrier substrate of a roll and cannot be doctored out of the roll if defective. RFID inlay suppliers can identify and mark bad tags, but it is left to the converters to remove them from the production stream.