Patent ID: 7609406

Claim:
A hand-held portable printer, comprising: a hand-held housing; a plurality of input devices on the housing for receiving data including a barcode scanner and a plurality of keys actuable by a user to provide a plurality of input sources; a communication interface; an RFID reader/writer; an antenna coupled to and cooperating with the RFID reader/writer to read and/or write to an RFID chip external to the housing; a printing system having a printhead and a drive mechanism to drive a web of RFID record members past the printhead for printing data thereon; another antenna coupled to and cooperating with the RFID reader/writer to read and/or write to an RFID chip on the web of record members; and a processor on the housing, the processor being coupled to the printing system and to the RFID reader/writer and operable to select data from the plurality of input sources to print on the web and/or to write to an RFID chip on the web.