Seagull Scientific BarTender Label Software
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Editions, Specifications and Features
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BarTender Editions Summary
BarTender is available in three editions that address a wide range of features and user requirements: Enterprise, Professional and Basic.
Enterprise Edition
Provides the full range of BarTender's most powerful features. Especially designed to allow automation control by other programs. Contains our complete set of external data access capabilities.
Delivers - Includes our most powerful software integration tools, such as ActiveX Automation, Enterprise messaging and Seagull's own Commander utility for cross-platform integration. Advanced data sourcing, including the industry's only SAP-certified direct IDoc interface. Intelligent network Install can set up a single copy of BarTender to run on unlimited workstations.
Licensing - Allows unlimited number of local area network users, with licensing based on the maximum number of printers. (Multiple corporate sites require individual licenses.)
Professional Edition
All of the label design and most of the data access of the Enterprise Edition. Network compatible, but not optimised for control by other software.
Delivers - All of the label design and printing features of the Enterprise Edition and most of the advanced data access capabilities, including ODBC. Fully network compatible. Control by other programs limited to a simple "command line" interface.
Leaves Out - No ActiveX Automation or Commander integration. No SAP IDoc interface. No automatic e-mailing of logged events and errors. Although otherwise network-compatible, Install program will not setup a single BarTender as shareable from multiple workstations.
Licensing - Licensing is based on the number of workstations running BarTender, regardless of whether or not they are on a common network. Supports an unlimited number of networked printers.
Basic Edition
For users who just need BarTender's essential label design and printing features.
Delivers - The most important "core" label design features. Includes all text, graphics and linear bar code support. Supports simple, numeric serialization. Useful for keyboard-supplied label data only..
Leaves Out - Does not offer integration, enterprise message handling, or external data access of any kind. No password protection, VB Script customisation, text filtering, job logging, or 2D bar codes. No advanced or custom serialization.
Licensing - Same as Professional.
Features and Editions Comparison Chart
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| GENERAL |
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| Printer-Based Licensing |
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| User-Based Licensing |
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| Free Phone and E-mail Technical Support |
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| HTML-Based Context-Sensitive Help |
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| User Interface Translated into 20+ Languages |
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| Password Protection |
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| LABEL DESIGN |
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| True WYSIWYG Label Design |
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| “New Label” Wizard Ensures Proper Label Setup and Optimises Performance |
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| Drag and Drop Creation of all Objects, Including Lines, Boxes and Graphic Images |
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| Built-in Printer Font Support |
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| Import Graphics in BMP, DCX, DIB, DXF, EPS, IMG, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG |
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| Industry-Specific Graphic Symbol Font Libraries |
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| One-Tenth Degree Rotation of Lines, Boxes, Text, and Graphics |
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| Export Bar Codes and Labels for Use in Other Programs |
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| Automatic Positioning and Alignment |
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| Rectangular Label Outline |
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| Circular and Elliptical Label Outline |
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| Unlimited Undo / Redo Command |
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| Full Colour Support |
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| Specify Background Images and Colours to Appear “Behind” Label Designs |
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| Customisable Print-Time Prompts for Keyboard / Scanner Data |
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| Library of "Ready-to-Print" Formats |
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| Customisable Library of Reusable Components |
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| Computation of Label Size from Number of Rows and Columns |
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| Database of Thousands of Common Industry Label Stocks |
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| Thumbnail Previews of Saved Label Formats, viewable both in BarTender and Windows Explorer |
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| Metric and US Measurement Systems |
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| TEXT |
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| On-Screen Text Editing |
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| Rich Text Formatting |
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| Scale Text Horizontally or Vertically |
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| Auto-Size Text to Fit Preset Heights and Widths |
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| Basic Paragraph Support: Aligning and Spacing |
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| Advanced Paragraph Support: Justifying and Indenting |
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| User-Definable Tab Stops |
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| White-on-Black Text Printing |
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| Windows TrueType Fonts |
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| BAR CODES |
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| Numerous 1D Symbologies |
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| Numerous 2D Symbologies |
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| Extensive Library of Industry-Standard Bar Code 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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| UCC / EAN 128 Application Identifier Setup Wizard |
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| Automatic Check Digit Capability |
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| Sequentially Numbered Bar Codes |
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| Place Text Anywhere in Relation to Bar Codes |
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| Customisable Character Template |
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| Independently Suppress or Display Characters from Different Sub-Fields |
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| PRINTING |
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| Over One Thousand Printers Supported |
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| Advanced Print Preview |
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| Set Starting Position on Pages of Partially Used Labels |
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| Supports Printer-Based Bar Codes, Serial Numbers, Time, Date, and Copies |
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| Speed Optimization Reuses Repeating Data Instead of Resending |
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| True Windows Drivers, Can Use Windows Spooler |
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| Local and Network Printer Support |
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| Identical and/or Serialized Copies Controllable from Keyboard and Database |
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| Job Logging |
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| SERIALIZATION |
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| Basic Serialization (Increment, Numeric Base 10) |
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| Increment or Decrement by Any Interval |
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| Separate Rollover/Rollunder and Value Reset Options |
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| Preserve or Expand Field Length When Rolling Over |
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| Numeric, Alphabetic and Custom Base Serialization |
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| DATABASE OPTIONS |
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Microsoft OLE DB and ODBC Support, Including Drivers for:
Access, AS/400, Btrieve, dBase, Excel, FoxPro, Informix, Interbase, Linux, MySQL, Oracle, Paradox, Pervasive.SQL, PostgreSQL, Progress, SQL Server, Sybase, and More |
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| ASCII Text Files (Quote & Comma, CSV, Tab, User-Defined, & Fixed Width) |
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| SAP Certified Interface (mySAP.com and R/3) |
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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 |
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| Visual Basic Scripting for Custom Data Processing |
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| User-Definable Min and Max Field Lengths |
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| Customisable Data-Entry Filters and Error Checking |
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| Multiple Sub-Fields Concatenated Per Label Object |
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| Source Data with Keyboard, Time & Date (From PC or Printer) |
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| Full System Unicode Compatibility: Supports not just data, but also names of fields, tables, files, printers, servers, etc. |
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| Easy Entry of Special and "Unprintable" Control Characters |
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| Shareable Data Fields |
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| Customisable Message Box Handling |
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| INTEGRATION |
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| Can Be Run as "Background" Application |
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| Dynamically Selectable Label Formats and Data Sources |
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| Automated Printer Selection |
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| Logs Errors and Events to a File |
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| Logs Errors and Events via E-Mail |
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| E-mail User-Defined Messages Using VB Script |
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| Command Line Interface Option |
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| ActiveX Automation |
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| "Commander" Integration Software Utility |
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| • Runs as Application or NT/2000/XP Service |
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| • Looks for Incoming Data Files and /or E-mails and Initiates Print Jobs |
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| • Logs Errors and Events to a File and /or via E-mail |
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| Generate and Export Printer Code Templates |
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| SAPscript-ITF Code Template for SAP Integrations |
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• Fully Supported ¡ Partially Supported
International Language Support
BarTender is available in international Editions that support on-demand switching of the displayed user-interface language between the following:
Chinese
(Simplified & Traditional) |
German |
Portuguese
(European & Brazilian) |
| Czech |
Greek |
Polish |
| Danish |
Hungarian |
Russian |
| Dutch |
Italian |
Spanish |
| English |
Japanese |
Swedish |
| Finnish |
Korean |
Thai |
| French |
Norwegian |
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Bar Code Support
Linear Bar Codes:
| AIAG |
FIM A |
RSS |
| Australia Post |
FIM C |
SCC-14 |
| Canadian Customs |
HIBC Primary |
SSCC-18 |
| Codabar |
HIBC Secondary |
Telepen |
| Code 128 |
Interleaved 2-of-5 |
Tri-optic |
Code 39
(Regular & Full ASCII) |
ISBT 128 |
UCC-EAN 128 |
| Code 93 |
ITF-14 |
UPC-A |
| EAN 128 |
KIX Code |
UPC-E |
| EAN Bookland |
LOGMARS |
UPS Tracking |
| EAN-JAN-13 |
MSI Plessey |
US Postal |
| EAN-JAN-8 |
Royal Mail |
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Two Dimensional Bar Codes:
| Aztec |
PDF417 (Micro & Standard) |
TLC39 |
| Datamatrix |
QR Code |
UCC.EAN Composite |
| Maxicode |
Micro QR Code |
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Supported Printers
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:
| Argox |
Godex |
Samsung |
| ASTECH |
IBM |
SATO |
| APS |
Imaje |
System Wave |
| Autonics |
Intermec |
TEC |
| Avery Dennison |
Markpoint |
Tharo |
| Birch |
Meto |
Thermopatch |
| Brady |
Metrologic |
ThermoTex |
| C. Itoh |
MICROPLEX |
TSC |
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Monarch |
Tyco |
| Century Systems |
Novexx |
UBI |
| Citizen |
Okabe |
Unimark |
| Cognitive |
Paxar |
Valentin |
| Comtec |
Pitney Bowes |
VIPColor |
| Datamax |
Pressiza |
Wedderburn |
| Datasouth |
Printronix |
Zebra |
| Eltron |
Quick Label Systems |
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| ETISYS |
Ring |
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System Compatibility and Configuration
BarTender runs on any system meeting the Microsoft-recommended minimum requirements for the selected operating system. BarTender version 7.7 is supported by Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003. Additionally, BarTender 7.51 will run on Windows 95 and NT.
(Note: Enterprise Edition requires TCP/IP Network Protocol.)
To download a Free Trial Edition of BarTender Label Software, click here.
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