BarTender ™ Barcode Label Design Software by Seagull Scientific
Categories: Barcode Label Software , Software
With BarTender® You Can Design and Print Almost Anything
BarTender® is the world’s most trusted software for labels, barcodes, RFID tags, plastic cards and more.
BarTender® software enables organizations around the world to improve safety, security, efficiency and compliance by creating and automating the printing and control of labels, barcodes, RFID tags, plastic cards and more.
The world’s largest companies and hundreds of thousands of small businesses rely on BarTender to help them:
- Accelerate the speed of goods moving through the supply chain
- Get the right medication to the right patient at the right time
- Ensure workers know how to handle hazardous substances safely
- Alert a parent to a potentially harmful allergen
- Enable a health agency to track a food-borne illness back to the field where it started
- Improve retail control of shrinkage and loss prevention
- And much more…
Create and automate labels, barcodes and more.
BarTender® gives you the tools to easily and efficiently design labels and templates, configure and connect to data sources and business systems, and launch print commands from any system, OS or device. It helps you automate printing, monitor print status and supplies, and streamline production while providing complete and secure control of the printing process. And it can ensure the availability of all printing systems with monitoring and reporting.
| Four editions keep pace with your growing business. BarTender’s four editions enable you to easily upgrade your system as your business grows, without the extra cost and complexity of buying add-on products. |
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| PC Licensing: Create (Design and Print) The Professional and Basic editions are licensed based on the number of PCs. |
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Basic Edition – Get started in just minutes!
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Professional Edition – All Basic features, plus:
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| Enterprise Licensing: Create & Automate (Design, Print and Control) All Enterprise editions allow unlimited network users. Licensing is based on the maximum number of printers used by BarTender on the network. |
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Automation – All Professional features, plus:
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Enterprise Automation – All Automation features, plus:
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| B | = | Basic |
| P | = | Professional |
| A | = | Automation |
| EA | = | Enterprise Automation |
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= | Works for local and network printers (and print jobs) that have drivers installed on the local PC |
Please note that Print Only editions have been discontinued as of BarTender 2016.)
| EDITIONS: | B | P | A | EA |
| GENERAL | ||||
| Licensed based on the number of printers used | |
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| Licensed based on the number of PCs used | |
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| Free phone and e-mail technical support for properly-registered users | |
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| HTML-based context-sensitive help | |
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| User interface translated into 20+ languages | |
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| COMPANION APPLICATIONS | ||||
| Integration Builder creates integrations to control BarTender from other programs | |
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| Administration Console provides a single destination for controling security, managing integrations, monitoring BarTender-related services and administering the BarTender System Database | |
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| Printer Maestro administers to printers and print queues on the network | |
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| Librarian controls access, manages workflow, and tracks revisions to BarTender documents and other files within a secure database | |
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| History Explorer views the logs stored in the BarTender System Database | |
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| Reprint Console reprints previously printed jobs | |
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| Print Station provides a simple “single-click” interface for selecting and printing BarTender documents | |
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| Batch Maker defines and prints “batches” of multiple BarTender documents | |
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| Print Portal provides an intuitive, browser-based interface for selecting and printing BarTender documents, including support for tablets and smart phones, and the ability to print via the cloud | |
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| TEMPLATE DESIGN | ||||
| True WYSIWYG template design | |
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| “New Document” Wizard ensures proper printer selection and allows maximum printing speed | |
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| Two-sided ( duplex”) design and printing | |
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| Point and click creation of all objects, including text, barcodes, lines, boxes, shapes, and graphic images | |
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| To simplify conversion from legacy systems, import and lighten photographs of old labels, cards, or tags for use as a design aid | |
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| Unlimited undo / redo command | |
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| Resize and reposition objects using a choice of methods: Mouse, arrow keys, typed in values | |
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| Functions for automatic alignment of multiple objects | |
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| Intelligent TemplatesTM: Place objects on separate, lockable layers for conditional printing and editing security; programmatically modify template objects during print jobs | |
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| One-tenth degree rotation of lines, shapes, text, and graphics | |
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| “Move to Front” and “Send to Back” | |
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| Group and Ungroup multiple objects | |
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| Live database view in objects in template design area | |
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| Export barcodes to other programs | |
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| Full color, pattern, and gradient support for all template objects | |
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| Optional automatic borders for text, barcodes and graphics | |
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| Combine multiple template objects into reusable components | |
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| Library of “ready-to-print” label, card, and tag templates | |
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| Thumbnail previews of saved BarTender documents, viewable both in BarTender and Windows explorer | |
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| Metric and US measurements | |
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| LABEL STOCK AND OTHER MEDIA | ||||
| Design templates up to 128 inches (3.25 m) long and/or wide (subject to limits of printer and driver) | |
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| Any number of labels, cards, or tags, arranged in any number of rows and/or columns per sheet | |
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| Page Setup Wizard assists with properly specifying media dimensions | |
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| Database of thousands of name brand label, card, and tag sizes | |
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| Rectangular, circular and elliptical media supported | |
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| TEXT | ||||
| Versatile font support: OpenType, TrueType, Adobe, PostScript, downloadable, and built-in printer fonts | |
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| On-screen text editing and sizing | |
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| Powerful Rich Text formatting using on-screen WYSIWYG editor | |
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| Stretch text horizontally or vertically | |
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| Automatic on-the-fly resizing of text to fit within predefined height and width | |
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| Paragraph Formatting: Multiple alignment methods, line spacing control, indenting, and inter-paragraph spacing | |
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| Kerning and inter-character spacing control | |
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| Outline fonts | |
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| Arc and circular text | |
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| User-definable tab stops | |
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| White-on-black text printing (specified with a single mouse click) | |
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| Support for RTF, HTML, and XAML | |
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| BARCODES | ||||
| Numerous 1 and 2 dimensional symbologies | |
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| Extensive library of industry-standard barcode formats | |
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| Option to display start / stop characters | |
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| Variable and unlimited width and height | |
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| Minimum width limited only by printer resolution | |
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| GS1 (formerly UCC/EAN) Application Identifier Data Source Wizard | |
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| Automatic check digit capability | |
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| Sequentially numbered barcodes | |
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| Place “human readable” text anywhere in relation to barcodes | |
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| Customizable “human readable” character template | |
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| Independently suppress or display characters from different sub-fields | |
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| GRAPHICS, IMAGES AND SYMBOLS | ||||
| Draw lines, circles, ellipses, rectangles, rounded rectangles, triangles, polygons, arrows, arcs, stars, and many other shapes | |
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| Multiple dashed line styles and compound line styles | |
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| Fill options for lines and shapes include solid color, multi-point gradient, pattern, and bitmap | |
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| Import more than 70 graphic formats, including BMP, DCX, DIB, DXF, EPS, GIF, IMG, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, and more | |
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| Integrated, online clip-art search and import | |
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| TWAIN and WIA support for image scanners and cameras | |
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| Basic image processing: Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sharpness, smoothing, cropping and more | |
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| Industry-specific graphic symbol font libraries | |
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| Linked graphics allow external graphics to change dynamically | |
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| Specify background images and colors for templates | |
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| PRINTING | ||||
| More than 3,000 industrial printers supported | |
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| True Windows drivers, can be used by other programs | |
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| Seagull drivers with status monitor display printer status in the standard Windows spooler | |
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| Two-sided ( duplex”) design and printing | |
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| Custom page templates, including printing outside the label when printing multiple pages (such as for including page numbers) | |
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| Multiple templates per document | |
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| Integrated job separator templates | |
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| Batch Maker defines and prints “batches” of multiple BarTender documents | |
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| Print Station supports “single-click” document selection and printing | |
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| Conditional printing of templates | |
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| Export printer code templates to XML enabled printers | |
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| Advanced on-screen print preview | |
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| Advanced cutter control | |
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| Set starting position on pages of partially used labels, cards or tags | |
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| Supports printer-based barcodes, serial numbers, time, date, and copies | |
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| Speed optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending it | |
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| Local and network printer support | |
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| Print quantity can be set from keyboard or data source | |
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| CARD PRINTING & ENCODING | ||||
| Print-time image capture, supporting WIA and VFW webcams | |
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| Automatic face detection and cropping | |
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| Magnetic stripe encoding | |
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| Encoding of smart cards (both contact and non-contact) | |
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| SERIALIZATION | ||||
| Basic serialization: Numeric (base 10), alphabetic (base 26), and concatenated numeric and alphabetic sequences with increment / decrement by any interval | |
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| Advanced serialization: Alphanumeric (base 36), hexadecimal (base 16), and custom base serialization | |
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| Separate rollover / rollunder and value reset options | |
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| Serialize per page or per job; reset counters when the time or date changes | |
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| Serialize when data source or fields change; reset counters for each database record or with field changes | |
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| Preserve or expand field length when rolling over | |
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| DATA SOURCING | ||||
| Design print-time data entry forms for keyboard and barcode scanner data | |
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| Share global data fields among all documents that use the same system database | |
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| Database support using ADO.NET drivers to natively connect to your database | |
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| Data from weighing scales supported by data entry forms | |
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| Microsoft OLE DB and ODBC support, including drivers for: Access, AS/400, Btrieve, dBase, Excel, Informix, Interbase, MySQL, Oracle database, Pervasive.SQL, PostgreSQL, Progress, SQL Server, Sybase, and more | |
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| Read Excel files | |
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| Read ASCII & Unicode text files (quote & comma, fixed width, and user-defined delimitation) | |
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| SAP-certified interface to AII (Auto ID Infrastructure) XML documents | |
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| Read data from SAP IDocs | |
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| Oracle-certified interface to XML print requests | |
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| Drag and drop data linking | |
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| Versatile multiple-table data access | |
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| Import variable graphics from databases | |
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| Data query wizard and custom SQL assistant | |
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| Individual record-picking at print time | |
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| DATA PROCESSING | ||||
| Full-system Unicode support (field names, files, servers, printers, etc.) | |
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| Visual Basic scripting for custom data processing | |
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| Visual Basic Script Editor for simplified implementation, access and navigation of custom code | |
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| Visual Basic scripting for document open, close, save, and print-time events | |
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| Print-time search and replace function | |
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| User-definable min and max field lengths | |
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| Use and/or exclude select portions of database fields | |
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| Customizable data-entry filters and error checking | |
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| Custom configure the handling of individual messages and alerts | |
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| Multiple data sources concatenated per template object | |
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| Source data with keyboard, time and date (from PC or printer) | |
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| Easy entry of special and “unprintable” control characters | |
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| Shareable data fields | |
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| Data type support, including: text, date, time, number, currency, percentage, and fraction | |
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| STANDARD INTEGRATION | ||||
| Can be run as “background” application | |
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| Control from other programs using ActiveX | |
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| Control from other programs using command lines | |
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| Senses incoming data, then starts print jobs and logs results | |
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| Specify both the BarTender document and the data to print from within other programs | |
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| Automated printer selection | |
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| Log to file: Errors and events | |
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| Log to database: Errors and events, plus BarTender print job details | |
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| Custom error, event and status e-mails | |
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| Export printer code templates for SAPscript-ITF, keypads, printers that accept XML, and more | |
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| SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND SECURITY | ||||
| Administration Console manages user permissions and encrypts documents | |
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| Administration Console supports electronic signatures and logs permission requests | |
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| Lock down documents with passwords | |
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| Lock down BarTender into a password-protected “print-only” mode | |
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| History Explorer audits past print jobs and other events | |
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| Log images of all printed output | |
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| Log revision number and change descriptions into the document file | |
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| Librarian manages document publishing, revision tracking, and rollback within a secure database | |
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| ADVANCED INTEGRATION | ||||
| SAP Certified for AII | |
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| Read data from SAP IDocs | |
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| Oracle certified for WMS and MSCA | |
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| Oracle XML integration using a TCP/IP socket | |
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| Supports IBM WebSphere Sensor Events | |
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| Processes file, e-mail and serial port triggers | |
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| Supports TCP/IP triggers and data transmission | |
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| Optimized to receive, launch and monitor new print jobs without waiting for existing jobs to finish | |
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| Can return XML status response as a file or through a TCP/IP port | |
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| Detailed print job status available to other programs using ActiveX | |
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| .NET SDK to control one BarTender at a time. (C# & VB.NET examples included) | |
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| .NET SDK to control multiple instances of BarTender at once | |
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| .NET SDK for BarTender System Database allows automated review and reprinting of past print jobs | |
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| .NET SDK for Librarian allows automated file add, remove, rename, check in and out, etc. | |
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| ASP.NET sample application for customizable web browser printing | |
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| Automated conversion of different XML formats using XSL style sheets | |
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| BarTender XML Command Scripts speed up automation and simplify remote control | |
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| RFID SUPPORT | ||||
| Full-featured native RFID objects | |
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| Encode EPC Gen2, EPC Class 1, ISO 18000-6b, ISO 15693, Tag-It, I-CODE, TagSys, My-d, and Picotag tag types | |
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| Supports DoD, Wal-Mart, and other EPC data formats, including SGTIN, SSCC, GIAI, GID, GRAI, SGLN | |
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| Support for many single and double-byte codepages, including Asian languages, UTF-8 and UTF-16 | |
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| Able to duplicate either the text or hexadecimal representation of the RFID data in text and barcode form | |
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| Supports optional write protection | |
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| Segment and Start Block support, including writing to multiple blocks | |
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| Able to configure printer’s RFID options (e.g., Transponder Offset and Maximum Retries) | |
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| Display antenna, chip, and substrate on label. Select predefined or specify custom antenna bitmaps | |
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| ENTERPRISE PRINT MANAGEMENT | ||||
| Optimized for high-volume label requests from numerous network users to one or more servers | |
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| Browser-based network and internet printing | |
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| Windows Cluster Server supported | |
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| Reprint Console lets you search for and reprint previous jobs | |
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| Configure security, spooler and other selected driver settings for multiple printers at once. | |
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| Printer Maestro displays status of all Windows print jobs in one window | |
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| Printer Maestro tracks printer media usage and inventory of printer parts. Generates custom alerts. | |
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| Log printer events for Windows print jobs other than just those from BarTender | |
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| Specify custom alerts for printer events and low inventory levels | |
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International editions can switch the UI on demand between 23 languages: Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (European & Brazilian), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.
| Linear barcode symbologies * Codabar * Code 39 (Full ASCII and Regular) * Code 93 * Code 128 * EAN-8 * EAN-13 (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons) * GS1-128 * GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS, all four non-stacked variants) * Interleaved 2-of-5 * ITF-14 * JAN-8 * JAN-13 (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons) * MSI Plessey * RSS (see GS1 DataBar) * Telepen * Trioptic * UPC-A (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons) * UPC-E (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons) |
2D, matrix, and stacked symbol symbologies * Aztec Code * Data Matrix * GS1 Composite (13 variants) * GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS * 3 stacked variants) * GS1 DataMatrix * GS1 QR * MaxiCode * Micro QR Code * MicroPDF417 * PDF417 * QR Code * RSS (see GS1 DataBar) * iQR |
| Postal and shipping barcode symbologies * Australia Post * Canadian Customs * Japanese Post * KIX Code * Royal Mail * UPS MaxiCode * USPS Intelligent Mail * USPS Planet * USPS Postnet |
Barcode standards * GS1 Coupons * GS1 Distribution * GS1 General Applications * GS1 Health Care – Non-retail * GS1 Health Care – Retail * GS1 Pharmaceutical * GS1 Retail – General Distribution * GS1 Retail – Non-general Distribution * HIBC (Primary and Secondary) * ISBT * TLC (39 and MicroPDF417) * DUN * UPS Tracking Number * Design barcodes for almost any other standard |
| Label standards * AIAG * Caterpillar * DoD * GHS * GM 1724-A * HIBC * MIL 129 and 1189B (LOGMARS) * ODETTE * Oracle WMS * Sears * Wal-Mart * SAP AII * SSCC * TLC * UPS * USPS (includes FIM A and FIM C). * You can also design labels for almost any other standard |
Data format standards Encode text using almost any data format, including Unicode, ASCII, Western, Japanese, Chinese, or any other character encoding, plus custom formats. Predefined barcode components also support the following standards: * GTIN-8 (for EAN-8, JAN-8, and UPC-E components) * GTIN-12 (for UPC-A components) * GTIN-13 (for EAN-13 and JAN-13 components) * GTIN-14 (formerly EAN-14 and SCC-14; for GS1 components that use the (01) application identifier, for GS1 DataBar components, and for ITF-14 components) * SCC-18 (for GS1 barcode components that use the (00) application identifier) |
| Symbologies vs. Standards Many barcode symbologies are used in more than one barcode or label standard. The standards above (which are included with BarTender®) are listed by some other software companies as separate symbologies. This is misleading, because these are standards and not symbologies. |
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| RFID tag types and data formats EPC Gen2, EPC Class 1, ISO 18000-6b, ISO 15693, Tag-It, I-CODE, TagSys, My-d, and Picotag tag types. All EPC data formats are supported, including DoD, Wal-Mart, SGTIN, SSCC, GIAI, GID, GRAI, and SGLN, among others. (Note: RFID is not supported in the Basic Edition.) |
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| BarTender® supports any printer with a Windows driver. In addition to virtually all laser, ink-jet and dot-matrix printers, this includes the following, for which Seagull has developed its own enhanced Windows printer drivers: | ||
| Accumax Argox ASTECH APS Autonics Avery Dennison Birch Brady C. Itoh cab Century Systems Citizen Cognitive Comtec Datamax Datasouth Eltron ETISYS General Code Godex Graphic Products |
IBM Imaje Intermec K-SUN KROY Markpoint Marschall MAX Meto Metrologic MICROPLEX Monarch Novexx O’Neil Okabe OPAL Paxar Pitney Bowes Postek Pressiza Printronix |
Quick Label Systems Ring Samsung SATO SII Sumitomo System Wave TEC Tharo Thermopatch ThermoTex TSC Tyco UBI Unimark Valentin VIPColor Wasp Wedderburn Zebra |
| Operating Systems: | * Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Vista. * Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, Server 2008 and 2008 R2. * Includes all 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) editions. |
| CPU: | 450 MHz Pentium (1 GHz or higher recommended) |
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* Basic and Professional Editions (32-bit) o 1 GB RAM o 2 GB free hard drive space * Basic and Professional Editions (64-bit) o 2 GB RAM o 3 GB free hard drive space * Automation and Enterprise Automation Editions (32-bit) o 4 GB RAM o 20 GB free hard drive space (to allow sufficient space for logs) * Automation and Enterprise Automation Editions (64-bit) o 8 GB RAM o 20 GB free hard drive space (to allow sufficient space for logs) |
| Display Resolution: | 1024 x 768 or higher (recommended) |
| .NET Framework: | The .NET Framework 4.0 is required. The BarTender installer will automatically install all required .NET Framework components. |
| Optional database: | Logging of print jobs and event messages requires either * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express or higher (Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express included with BarTender), or * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or higher (purchased from a database vendor) |
| Free Windows Printer Driver Downloads for Thermal Label Printers, Card Printers, and Other Specialty Printers Drivers by Seagull™ make it easy to print labels, cards and more from any true Windows program.We have been creating printer drivers for more than 20 years. Today, our drivers are so trusted that many printer manufacturers provide them in the box with their printers.And when used with our BarTender software for label, barcode, RFID and card printing, our drivers can take advantage of special high-speed printing functions that standard Windows programs can’t use.Technical support for free Windows printer drivers We provide support for our free Drivers by Seagull when used with our BarTender software for label design, label printing and barcode printing including, the free 30-day trial edition. |
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| More than 3,000 Windows printer drivers Seagull Scientific is the largest developer of specialty printer drivers in the world. This download page includes: |
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| * Thermal printer drivers * Card printer drivers * Drivers for print and apply systems * Product coder drivers * Drivers for thermal transfer overprinting systems |
* Label printer drivers * Specialty inkjet printer drivers * Drivers for industrial marking and coding systems * Case coder drivers * RFID printer drivers |
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| Windows Drivers Available For: |
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| 3M 3nStar AccuMax AIDA AirTrack Aisino Altec AMT Datasouth Argox ASTECH Automated Packaging Systems Autonics Avery Dennison Bematech Birch Bitek BIXOLON Brady bsc C.ITOH cab Century Systems Citizen COBRA CognitiveTPG Compuprint Comtec Creative |
DASCOM Datamax-O’Neil Datasouth Dedruma Deli Domino Dynamic Eltron enjoyid Epson ETISYS Evolis Fabulous Fargo General Code Gitech Godex Graphic Products GSK HellermannTyton Honeywell HPRT IBM ICE IDENTjet InfoPrint Solutions IntelliTech Intermec ISG |
K-SUN Klic-N-Print KROY LabelPod Linx Magicard Markem-Imaje Marrison MAX Max Meyer Mectec MELTH METAPACE Meto Metrologic METTLER TOLEDO MICROPLEX Monarch Novexx Okabe Marking Systems OKI OPAL PDC Pitney Bowes POSTEK Pressiza Printronix PROTON QuickLabel Systems |
Ring RockWest Samsung SATO SII SNBC Stratège Print Sumitomo System Wave Tally Dascom TallyGenicom TECLABEL Tharo Thermopatch ThermoTex TNA TOSHIBA TEC TSC Tyco Unimark Valentin Videojet VIPColor WAGO Wasp Wolke Worldwide Ticketcraft Xprinter Zebra |
