RFID paper cards are cards made of paper or card­stock mate­r­i­al that con­tain embed­ded RFID chips. They are a pop­u­lar, low-cost option for appli­ca­tions like pub­lic tran­sit fare col­lec­tion, event tick­et­ing, loy­al­ty pro­grams, access con­trol, etc. They con­tain RFID chips, sup­port low fre­quen­cy, high fre­quen­cy and ultra high fre­quen­cy RFID chips. RFID paper cards suit­able for high-vol­ume pro­grams with lim­it­ed bud­gets because they are cheap­er than oth­er RFID prod­ucts. RFID paper cards are dis­pos­able but can have a long lifes­pan depend­ing on the appli­ca­tion. Tran­sit cards may last 2–5 years while event cards are dis­card­ed after one use. Cus­tom designs include card num­bers, instruc­tions, com­pa­ny brand­ing can be print­ed on the card paper.

Para­me­ters of Contact/Contactless chip

Chip mod­el	Brand	Type	Fre­quen­cy	Mem­o­ry	Read-Write time	Data con­ser­va­tion	Pro­to­cal
Mifare S50	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	1Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO 14443A
Mifare S70	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	4Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO 14443A
Mifare des­fire 2k	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	2Kbyte	500000	10 years	ISO 14443A
Mifare des­fire 4k	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	4Kbyte	500000	10 years	ISO 14443A
Mifare des­fire 8k	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	8Kbyte	500000	10 years	ISO 14443A
Mifare ultra­light	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	64byte	100000	5 years	ISO 14443A
Mifare PLUSS2K/X2K	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	2byte	200000	10 years	ISO 14443A
M1 PLUSS2K/4K	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	4byte	200000	10 years	ISO 14443A
I‑CODE SLI	NXP	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	1024bits	100000	40 years	ISO15693
HITAG1	NXP	Con­tact­less	125KHZ	2048bits	100000	10 years	ISO11784/785
HITAG2	NXP	Con­tact­less	125KHZ	256bits	100000	10 years	ISO11784/785
HITAG3	NXP	Con­tact­less	125KHZ	256/2048bits	100000	10 years	ISO11784/785
FM11RF08	FUDAN	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	1Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO14443A
FM11RF32	FUDAN	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	4Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO14443A
FM1208 series	FUDAN	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	8Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO14443A
FM1204	FUDAN	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	4Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO14443A
Legic256	Legic	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	256byte	100000	10 years
Ti2048	TI	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	256byte	100000	10 years	ISO15693
ID4001/4100	RUIXIN	Con­tact­less	125KHZ	–	100000	10 years	–
EM4200/4305	EM	Con­tact­less	125KHZ	–	100000	10 years	–
T5577	ATMEL	Con­tact­less	125KHZ	330bits	100000	10 years	ISO1178/785
U‑CODE HSL	HSL	Con­tact­less	915KHZ	2048bits	100000	10 years	ISO18000-6B
Alien9662(H3)	ATMEL	Con­tact­less	915KHZ	96bit EPC/512Bit user­mem­o­ry	100000	10 years	ISO18000-6C
FM1216 series	FUDAN	Con­tact­less	13.56Mhz	16Kbyte	100000	10 years	ISO14443A