Free RFID & NFC Sample Pack

What's in a Proud Tek sample pack — and why hold the chip first

A Proud Tek sample pack is a free box of 8–12 real, production-grade RFID and NFC SKUs — LF 125 kHz, HF 13.56 MHz and UHF RAIN 860–960 MHz — sent to qualified B2B buyers so your team can hold the chip, read it on your own hardware and feel the material before a single PO is written. The pack content is free; you cover DHL or FedEx shipping and it lands in 5–10 business days door-to-door. Tell us the project in the five-field request form, and the full catalogue is one click on. The numbers below are the ones a procurement team checks first.

• 2008Direct factory since
• 50+Countries shipped to
• 10Automated lines, 2 sites
• 3Audited ISO systems

• Read range on your real substrate — laminate thickness, label adhesive and ABS, PVC or PPS housing all shift the tuned range a datasheet quotes at bench conditions.
• Form-factor ergonomics on your real reader — front-desk encoder height, gate-portal antenna geometry and handheld trigger reach decide whether a credential is a pleasure or a fight.
• Survivability in your real environment — hot wash, ozone, chemical sterilisation and mechanical agitation are what actually kill tags, not shelf life.
• Protocol fit with your real software — a lock platform, WMS, POS or access panel has to speak the chip you pick, and the only proof is a live read.
• End-user reaction in your real workflow — encoding time at the desk, throughput on the sort line, the tap experience at the gate.

What's in the pack — every sample and what it proves

This table is the fast way to see what you can hold and what each sample is for. Every family runs to a published air-interface standard — ISO/IEC 14443 for HF cards and NTAG, ISO/IEC 15693 for ICODE vicinity labels, ISO/IEC 18000-63 for UHF RAIN — so a tag you validate today keeps reading across a reader fleet's lifetime. Chip names are representative of what we stock and allocate directly from NXP, Impinj, Alien and EM; browse live parts on the RFID cards, NFC labels and RFID tags catalogues.

• EM4100 and T5577 — the 125 kHz LF workhorses: EM4100 is read-only for simple identity, T5577 is rewritable so you can emulate legacy formats on your existing access panels.
• MIFARE Classic 1K and MIFARE DESFire EV3 — the HF access pair: Classic for cost-sensitive hotel and membership programmes, DESFire EV3 for AES-128 security where a credential must not be cloned.
• NTAG213 — 144 bytes of user memory, the cost-efficient NFC default for a URL or review link on a sticker.
• NTAG215 — 504 bytes, room for a vCard, a multi-record NDEF message or app data.
• NTAG216 — 888 bytes, the largest NTAG for complex multi-record NDEF payloads.
• NTAG424 DNA — AES-128 SUN authentication that mints a fresh cryptographic code on every tap, for tap-to-verify brand protection.
• ICODE SLIX2 — an ISO/IEC 15693 vicinity chip at 13.56 MHz for longer HF read range in library and industrial tagging.
• Impinj Monza R6-P, NXP UCODE 9 and Alien Higgs-9 — the UHF RAIN inlays and anti-metal tags for retail item-level, logistics and on-metal asset reads at 860–960 MHz.

Request it in five fields — then put every sample to work

The request is deliberately short: five fields — name, email, country, target quantity and project notes — with no registration wall and no fifteen-field qualification quiz. One specialist reads it, one pack ships, one follow-up offers a technical call. Here is the clock from submit to bench, and the checklist your engineers run once the box lands.

• 8–12SKUs in a typical pack
• 1 daySpecialist reply
• 5–10 daysDoor-to-door (DHL / FedEx)
• LF·HF·UHFBands in every pack

1. Submit the 5-field form

   Name, email, country, target quantity and project notes — the only facts we need to ship the right pack and quote your shipping.

2. Within one business day

   A specialist confirms the pack contents match your brief and swaps in a chip family if your project skews LF, HF or UHF.

3. Day 1–2 — assembly

   The pack is built and its 2-page specification card printed at Proud Tek Shenzhen.

4. Day 2 — dispatch

   Handed to DHL or FedEx FOB Shenzhen; you get the tracking number by email.

5. Day 5–10 — on your bench

   The pack arrives; run the read, range and material tests below. A week-two note offers a short technical call — no automated drip-marketing cadence.

• ✓Reader compatibility — read every sample on the exact panels, encoders, portals and phones it will meet in the field, not a lab reader.
• ✓Read range — measure the tuned range on your real substrate and mounting (LF, HF and UHF) against the datasheet number printed on the spec card.
• ✓Material feel and form factor — fold the card, clip the fob, stick the label on your surface and check the anti-metal tag on the actual metal.
• ✓Encoding and software fit — write a test NDEF record, sector key or EPC and confirm your lock, WMS, POS or access platform reads it cleanly.
• ✓Durability spot-check — if the environment is harsh, run a wash, a wipe-down or an abrasion pass before you trust the datasheet.

From a held sample to a locked quote

A sample is only worth the PO it de-risks. The path below front-loads the cheap, reversible steps: the free pack first, an optional pre-encoded or paid pilot second, and locked-price production only once the parts have earned it on your bench. When a sample passes, the same spec — chip, form factor and encoding already decided — drops straight into the five-step RFQ wizard and comes back as written MOQ, price and lead time.

• Ask for pre-encoded samples in the project-notes field — the pack can arrive already written, so you test your data, not a blank chip.
• MIFARE Classic 1K — sector keys and sector data pre-written to your specification.
• MIFARE DESFire EV3 — application and file structure created, AID and master key set to your brief.
• NTAG21x — an NDEF record (URL, vCard or text) pre-written; NTAG424 DNA — the SUN (Secure Dynamic Messaging) cryptographic profile configured to your backend.
• UHF RAIN — a GS1 SGTIN-96 EPC written to your prefix and serial range; ICODE SLIX2 — AFI byte and catalogue ID set.
• Ready for volume? A paid evaluation batch (100–500 pieces of one chip and form factor in a generic SKU) is the dress-rehearsal step between the free pack and a locked-price PO, shipping in 7–14 days.

Proof your procurement team can verify

Trust on a first order is a stack of documents, not a feeling — and the sample pack is where you start pulling it. Every pack ships with the paperwork, and the certifications page shows how to confirm each standard with the registrar while the factory page documents the plant behind the samples.

• ✓A 2-page printed specification card in every pack — chip family, chip part number, antenna size, form-factor dimensions, operating-temperature range, datasheet read range and the Proud Tek SKU for each sample, also emailed as a PDF on dispatch.
• ✓Read-range results, wash-cycle survival counts and AQL inspection data for your shortlisted SKUs, shared on request — the same records our own QA signs off against.
• ✓ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 certificates — certificate number and issuing registrar provided on request for independent verification.
• ✓Genuine silicon — NTAG and ICODE parts carry an NXP originality signature you can verify on your own reader, so the chip in the sample is the chip on the quote.
• ✓Mutual NDA at the project-brief stage — standard for healthcare, defence, luxury-brand authentication and pharmaceutical buyers; email info@proudtek.com after the form and a signature-ready template comes back within one business day.
• ✓Quality records — spec cards, read-test data and production travelers — retained seven years under ISO 9001, traceable by SKU.

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