Patent ID: 8600819

Claim:
A food product scale comprising: a housing; a label supply location within the housing; a print head located within the housing along a label path for printing indicia on labels passing thereby; a label RF unit for reading and/or writing label RFID tags on labels, the label RF unit positioned downstream of the print head along the label path so as to read and/or write label RFID tags after printing on the labels carrying the label RFID tags has been effected by the print head; and a controller associated with the print head and the label RF unit for operation thereof; wherein a peel bar is located for separating labels from label stock, the label RF unit is located downstream of the label peel bar; a weighing station for receiving an item to be weighed; the controller operable to establish a price for a weighed item based in part upon a weight indicative signal produced by the weighing station.