Patent ID: 7180627
Filing Date: 2007-02-20
Classification: B65C,G06K

Abstract:
1. A hand-held portable printer comprising: a hand-held portable housing; a radio transceiver on the housing for receiving and transmitting data; a barcode scanner on the housing to provide scanned barcode data; a printing system on the housing, the printing system including a printhead and a motor to drive a web of record members past the printhead to print data on RFID chips on record members internal to the housing; an RFID reader/writer on the housing, the RFID reader/writer in accordance with a read operation providing data read from an RFID chip external to the housing and the RFID reader/writer in accordance with a write operation to write data to an external RFID chip; a keypad on the housing to provide user inputs; a memory to store an application program; a processor operable in accordance with the application program to take data input from at least one of the radio transceiver, the keypad, the barcode scanner and the RFID reader/writer and to selectively couple data to at least one of the printing system to print on a record member, the RFID reader/writer to write to an external RFID clip, the RFID reader/writer to write to an internal RFID chip and the radio transceiver to transmit data.