[Straight Vermonter]

here has been much made of using ink jet or other forms of digital printing technology to get the costs down...

Excuse my ignorance but what does "ink jet or other forms of digital printing" have to do with RFID?

[misterrob]

The mechanisms with which you can manufacture RFID at cheaper costs. We are not there yet but with time it will happen to the point that RFID tags will cost a few cents per unit to manufacture.