NFC Guides

Twenty practical ways shops, restaurants, offices, events and factories use NFC tags, with the right tag for each idea.

Cheap NFC cards can hide clone chips. Use the free NXP TagInfo app to check chip type, memory and the originality signature.

The difference between wet inlays, dry inlays and NFC stickers, and which one to choose for labels, packaging and printed cards.

Solid metal blocks NFC signals. Here is how hybrid metal NFC cards get around it, and how to test one.

Which printers work with blank NFC cards, where the chip sits and how to test a card before printing a whole batch.

A step-by-step workflow for writing links and contacts to hundreds of NFC cards and tags, then locking and testing them.

Memory, use cases and price for the three NXP NTAG chips, with a clear table for choosing the right one.