The manufacturer of RFID printer-encoders, Zebra Technologies, says a free firmware Gen 2 upgrade is now available for its RXi series printer-encoders, European R4Mplus printer-encoders and RPAX4 series print engines. No hardware replacement or service call is required to do the upgrade.



The Gen 2 firmware upgrade and installation instructions are available at Zebra’s Web site Zebra customers can download from.



After it is installed, the printer-encoders will be able to encode RFID inlays that is compliant with the UHF EPCglobal Class 1 Gen 2 standard, the company reports, as well as any other tag protocols they currently support.