Apologies if this has been answered somewhere before, my searches turned up nothing.
I'm trying to print RFID tags with my Zebra printer in SGTIN-96 format with randomized serial numbers. An example of the code that I have so far is this:
^XA
^RU
^RB96,8,3,3,24,20,38^FS
^RFW,E^FD48,1,5,0659859,041142,#S
^PQ10
^XZ
This works, but my printer has to backfeed on each tag, which is greatly decreasing my throughput.
One thing that I've heard is possible is to encode only a portion of the EPC bank and leave the rest as-is (pre-serialized from the manufacturer). However, I can't seem to find any information on how this would be done.
I'd like to be able to encode the company prefix and item reference to the tag, while leaving the serial number as the remaining bits which were pre-serialized by the tag manufacturer; or find any other way to randomize the serial number without needing to generate it before sending the format to the printer.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
All my attempts at simply sending a shorter value seem to write the rest of the bank with 0's instead of leaving it untouched.
