How do I print tags?

    

Lately I had someone ask how they can print tags and/or get byte tags.... so I figured I would write a short note on the topic.

Firs of all, byte tags can be easily printed by printing full sets of them. We have published them in different formats (PDF, HTML, VISIO & PNG) at: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=72BABCDA-465B-4808-86EE-6E23F7967D3E&displaylang=en

If you want to print identity tags, there is no way to print all possible identity tags as that would be a really large number of them (2^128), so the Surface v1 SP1 SDK comes with an Identity Tag Printing Tool. More information on the printing tool can be found at:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee804803(Surface.10).aspx

Notice that once you are actually producing these for a real world deployment, most likely you will have the tags printed as part of some larger process. If that is the case, what is most useful to you is the specification of each of the tag formats, so you can use that in your custom printing process.

Here is the specification for byte tags and here is the specification for identity tags.
Notice that for identity tags, we provide you an API to generate the image to be printed.

Best of luck, and for those that celebrate it: Happy Thanksgiving!

Luis Cabrera
Platform PM - Microsoft Surface