Specifications
| BarTender Editions |
Print Server |
RFID Enterprise |
Enterprise |
Professional |
Basic |
| GENERAL
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| Licence based on the number of computers used |
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| Licensed based on the number of PCs used | | | | ♦ | ♦ |
| Free phone and e-mail technical support for properly-registered users | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| HTML-based context-sensitive help | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| LABEL DESIGN
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| True WYSIWYG label design | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| “New Label” wizard ensures proper label setup and optimizes performance | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Drag and drop creation of all objects, including lines, boxes, ellipses, and graphic images | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Unlimited undo / redo command | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Resize and reposition objects using a choice of methods: mouse, arrow keys, typed in values | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Functions for automatic alignment of multiple objects | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| One-tenth degree rotation of lines, boxes, text, and graphics | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| “Move to Front” and “Send to Back” | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Group and Ungroup multiple objects | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Export bar codes and labels for use in other programs | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Full color support (including text backgrounds and shape fills) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Customizable print-time prompts for keyboard and scanner data | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Enhance print-time prompts with lines, boxes, custom text, and multiple choice list boxes | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Customizable library of reusable components | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Library of “ready-to-print” label formats | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Thumbnail previews of saved label formats, viewable in BarTender and Windows explorer | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Metric and US measurement systems | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Password protection | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| LBBEL STOCK
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| Any label size | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Any number of label rows and columns per sheet | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Automatic computation of label size from number of rows and columns | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Database of thousands of name brand label sizes | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Rectangular label outline | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Circular and elliptical label outline | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| TEXT
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| Versatile font support: TrueType, Adobe, PostScript, downloadable, and built-in printer fonts | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| On-screen text editing and sizing | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Rich text formatting | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Automatic on-the-fiy resizing of text to fit within predefined height and width | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Basic paragraph support: aligning and spacing | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Advanced paragraph support: justifying and indenting | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Arc and circular text | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| User-definable tab stops | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| GRAPHICS, IMAGES AND SYMBOLS
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| Draw lines, circles, ellipses, rectangles, rounded rectangles and filled rectangles | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Import more than 70 graphic formats, including BMP, DCX, DIB, DXF, EPS, GIF, IMG, JPG, PCX,
PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, and more | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Industry-specific graphic symbol font libraries | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Specify background images and colors to appear “behind” label designs | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| SERIALIZATION
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| Numeric, Alphabetic, and Alphanumeric Increment / Decrement by any interval | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Base 36 and Custom Base serialization | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Separate Rollover / Rollunder and Reset value options | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Preserve or expand field length when rolling over | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| BAR CODES
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| Numerous 1 and 2 dimensional symbologies | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Extensive library of industry-standard bar code formats | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Option to display start / stop characters | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Variable and unlimited width and height | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Minimum width limited only by printer resolution | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| GS1 (formerly UCC/EAN) Application Identifier setup wizard | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Automatic check digit capability | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Sequentially numbered bar codes | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Place “human readable“ text anywhere in relation to bar codes | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Customizable “human readable” character template | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Independently suppress or display characters from different sub-fields | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| PRINTING
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| Over 1,700 industrial label printers supported | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| True Windows drivers, can be used by other programs | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Seagull drivers with status monitor display printer status in the standard
Windows spooler | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Export printer code templates to XML enabled printers | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Advanced on-screen print preview | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Advanced cutter control | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Set starting position on pages of partially used labels | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Supports printer-based bar codes, serial numbers, time, date, and copies | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Speed optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending it | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Local and network printer support | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Label copy count controllable from keyboard and database | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| 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 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Read Excel files | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Read ASCII and Unicode text files (quote & comma, fixed width, and user-defined
delimitation) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| SAP-certified interface to All (Auto ID Infrastructure) XML documents | ♦ | | | | |
| SAP IDocs and Oracle XML label requests | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Drag and drop data linking | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Versatile multiple-table data access | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Import variable graphics from databases | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Data query wizard and custom SQL assistant | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Individual record-picking at print time | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| RFID SUPPORT
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| RFID data encoding compatible with many single and double-byte codepages,
including Asian languages, UTF-8 and UTF-16 | ♦ | ♦ | | | |
| Able to duplicate RFID data in text and bar code form | ♦ | ♦ | | | |
| Supports optional write protection | ♦ | ♦ | | | |
| Segment and Start Block support, including writing to multiple blocks | ♦ | ♦ | | | |
| Able to configure printer’s RFID options (e.g., Transponder Offset and Maximum Retries) | ♦ | ♦ | | | |
| Display antenna, chip, and substrate on label. (Images specified by predefined or
custom antenna bitmaps.) | ♦ | ♦ | | | |
| DATA PROCESSING
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| Full-system Unicode support (data fields, field names, files, servers, printers, etc.) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Visual Basic scripting for custom data processing | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Customizable data-entry filters and error checking | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Custom configure the handling of individual messages and alerts | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Multiple sub-fields concatenated per label object | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Source data with keyboard, time and date (from PC or printer) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| Easy entry of special and “unprintable” control characters | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ |
| STANDARD INTEGRATION
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| Can be run as a “background” application | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Control from other programs using ActiveX | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Specify label formats and data sources from within other programs | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Automated printer selection | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Logs errors and events to a file | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Log BarTender print job details to a database | ⊕ | Φ | Φ | | |
| Log application errors and events to a database | ⊕ | Φ | Φ | | |
| Custom error, event and status e-mails | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| “Commander” Integration Utility: Senses incoming data, then starts print jobs
and logs results. | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| Generate & export printer code templates for SAPscript-ITF, Oracle XML, and more | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| HIGH-SECURITY AUDIT COMPLIANCE
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| Include label images when logging BarTender print jobs | ♦ | | | | |
| Inspect logs and confirm label jobs using History Explorer | ⊕ | Φ | Φ | | |
| ADVANCED INTEGRATION
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| SAP certified for AII integration | ♦ | | | | |
| Oracle XML integration using a TCP/IP socket | ♦ | | | | |
| Enhanced version of Commander supports TCP/IP triggers and data transmission | ♦ | | | | |
| Commander optimized to receive, launch, and monitor new print jobs without
waiting for existing jobs to finish | ♦ | | | | |
| Automated conversion of different XML formats using XSL style sheets | ♦ | | | | |
| BarTender XML command scripts speed up automation and simplify remote control | ♦ | | | | |
| Detailed print job status available to other programs using ActiveX | ♦ | | | | |
| .NET SDK to control one BarTender at a time. (All SDKs provide C# & VB.NET.) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| .NET SDK to control multiple instances of BarTender at once | ♦ | | | | |
| .NET SDK to author web printing applications | ♦ | | | | |
| SHARED, CENTRALIZED PRINT SERVICES
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| Optimized to handle high-volume printing requests using a single copy of
BarTender running on a server | ♦ | | | | |
| Easy print job control from any operating system that can run a web browser | ♦ | | | | |
| ENTERPRISE PRINT MANAGEMENT
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| Windows Cluster Server supported | ♦ | | | | |
| Reprint function lets you search for and replace lost and damaged labels | ⊕ | Φ | Φ | | |
| Configure selected driver settings for multiple printers at once | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| In one window, see status of all Windows print jobs for all locally accessible printers | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | | |
| In one window, see status of every Windows print job on the network | ♦ | | | | |
| Log printer events for all Windows print jobs | ♦ | | | | |
| Specify custom alerts for printer events and low inventory levels | ♦ | | | | |
| Track printer media usage and inventory of printer parts | ♦ | | | | |
♦ Supported
⊕ Supports shareable centralized database
Φ Supports local database only