What Does “Pitch” Mean?

And what is a short- or tight-pitch label?

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A label’s pitch is the height of that label, plus the border around it. If a label has a short or tight pitch, it usually means that the label is not very high, and/or that there is only a very small gap between labels. This can prove challenging for RFID printers, since it means that transponders in adjacent labels are very close to one another, so a reader-writer might not easily be able to write information to a given transponder.

—Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal