Patent ID: 8083151

Claim:
A method of printing on an RFID tag in a printer, the RFID tag including a face stock with a printable side and an inlay side and an RFID device disposed on the inlay side of the face stock such that the RFID tag has a greater thickness at the location of the RFID device than at other areas of the RFID tag, the printer including a print head and a pinch roller with a given separation therebetween, a transverse axis being defined along a length of the pinch roller and orthogonal to a print path of the printer, the method comprising: maintaining the printable side of the face stock substantially linear along the transverse axis while the RFID tag is passing through the printer, wherein the maintaining step further comprises the pinch roller having at least one area capable of undergoing a deformation in a normal direction that is orthogonal to the transverse axis, the at least one area corresponding to the location of the RFID device and the greater thickness, and electronically deforming the at least one area corresponding with the location of the RFID device, and wherein the at least one area is operable to be electronically changed based on the location of an RFID and area of greater thickness in an RFID tag.