BarTender Professional

BarTender is the world's leading software for designing and printing labels, barcodes and RFID tags. Running stand-alone or integrated with just about any ERP application, BarTender is used by many hundreds of thousands of people in more than 150 countries. With four editions delivering a remarkable range of features, there's a BarTender to satisfy every need and budget.

BarTender Professional

Includes - All of BarTender's most powerful label design features. Data access for network databases (using OLE DB and ODBC), as well as spreadsheets and text files. Includes two of the Companion Applications: Batch Maker and Print Station.

Omits - No control from within other software. (No ActiveX, Commander or command lines.) No SAP or XML support. No job logging or e-mailed error alerts. Cannot export printer code templates. Excludes all features omitted from the Automation edition.  No Printer Maestro. Does not include many of the Companion Applications.

GENERAL 

• Licensed based on the number of printers used       
• Licensed based on the number of PCs used       
• Free phone and e-mail technical support for properly-registered users     
• HTML-based context-sensitive help     
• User interface translated into 20+ languages     

COMPANION APPLICATIONS   

• Commander. (Controls BarTender in response to triggers from other programs)       
• Security Center. (Provides security features for other applications in the suite, such as user permissions and format encryption)    
• Printer Maestro. (Administers to printers and print queues on the network)       
• Librarian. (Controls access, manages workflow, and tracks revisions to label formats and other documents within a secure database)    
• History Explorer. (Views the logs stored in the BarTender System Database)       
• Reprint Console. (Reprints previously printed labels)       
• Print Station. (Provides a simple "single-click" interface for selecting and printing label formats)     
• Batch Maker. (Defines and prints "batches" of multiple label formats)      

LABEL DESIGN 

• True WYSIWYG label design     
• Programmatically modify label objects during print jobs       
• Design labels up to 128 inches (3.25 m) long and/or wide (subject to limits of printer and driver)     
• "New Label" wizard ensures proper label setup and
• optimizes performance     
• Two-sided (“duplex”) design and printing     
• Drag and drop creation of all objects, including lines, boxes, ellipses, and graphic images     
• To simplify conversion from legacy systems, import and lighten photographs of old labels for use as design templates      
• 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     
• Live database view in objects in label design area      
• Export bar codes and labels for use in other programs      
• Full color support for all label objects     
• Combine multiple label objects into reusable components     
• Library of "ready-to-print" label formats     
• Thumbnail previews of saved label formats, viewable
• both in BarTender and Windows explorer     
• Metric and US measurements     

LABEL STOCK 

• 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 

• Versatile font support: TrueType, Adobe, PostScript, downloadable, and built-in printer fonts     
• On-screen text editing and sizing     
• Powerful Rich Text formatting using on-screen WYSIWYG editor      
• Stretch text horizontally or vertically     
• Automatic on-the-fly resizing of text to fit within predefined height and width      
• Basic Paragraph Formatting: Multiple paragraph alignment methods and line spacing control     
• Advanced Paragraph Formatting: Paragraph indenting and inter-paragraph spacing      
• Arc and circular text      
• User-definable tab stops      
• White-on-black text printing (specified with a single mouse click)     
• Support for RTF, HTML, and XAML      

BAR CODES 

• 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 Data Source 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      

GRAPHICS, IMAGES AND SYMBOLS 

• 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     
• TWAIN and WIA support for image scanners and cameras      
• Basic image processing: Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sharpness, smoothing, cropping and more      
• Industry-specific graphic symbol font libraries     
• Linked graphics allow changes to external graphics without having to edit label formats      
• Specify background images and colors to appear "behind" label designs     

PRINTING 

• More than 2,700 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    
• Two-sided (“duplex”) design and printing     
• Batch Maker defines and prints "batches" of multiple label formats      
• Print Station supports "single-click" label selection and printing    
• 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      

SERIALIZATION 

• Basic serialization: Numeric (base 10), alphabetic (base 26), and concatenated numeric and alphabetic sequences with increment / decrement by any interval     
• Advanced serialization: Alphanumeric (base 36), hexadecimal (base 16), and custom base serialization      
• Separate rollover / rollunder and value reset options     
• Preserve or expand field length when rolling over     

DATA SOURCING 

• Design print-time data entry forms for keyboard and bar code scanner data     
• Data from weighing scales supported by data entry forms       
• 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      
• Read Excel files      
• Read ASCII & Unicode text files (quote & comma, fixed width, and user-defined delimitation)      
• SAP-certified interface to AII (Auto ID Infrastructure) XML documents        
• Read data from SAP IDocs       
• Oracle-certified interface to 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      

DATA PROCESSING 

• Full-system Unicode support (field names, files,
• servers, printers, etc.)    
• Visual Basic scripting for custom data processing      
• Visual Basic scripting for document open, close, save, and print-time events       
• User-definable min and max field lengths     
• Use and/or exclude select portions of database fields      
• Customizable data-entry filters and error checking      
• Custom configure the handling of individual messages and alerts       
• Multiple sub-fields (sub-strings) concatenated per label object      
• Source data with keyboard, time and date (from PC or printer)     
• Easy entry of special and "unprintable" control characters     
• Shareable data fields      

STANDARD INTEGRATION 

• Can be run as "background" application       
• Control from other programs using ActiveX       
• Control from other programs using command lines       
• Commander Integration Utility: senses incoming data, then starts print jobs and logs results       
• Specify label formats and data sources from within other programs       
• Automated printer selection       
• Log to file: Errors and events      
• Log to database: Errors and events, plus BarTender print job details       
• Custom error, event and status e-mails       
• Export printer code templates for SAPscript-ITF, keypads, printers that accept XML, and more       

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION AND SECURITY  

• Security Center manages user permissions and encrypts label formats       
• Security Center supports electronic signatures and logs permission requests        
• Lock down individual label formats with passwords      
• Lock down BarTender into a password-protected "print-only" mode      
• History Explorer audits past label jobs and other events       
• Include label images when logging BarTender print jobs        
• Log revision number and change descriptions into the document file      
• Librarian manages label format publishing, revision tracking, and rollback within a secure database        

ADVANCED INTEGRATION  (No features)

• SAP Certified for AII        
• Read data from SAP IDocs       
• Oracle certified for WMS and MSCA        
• Oracle XML integration using a TCP/IP socket        
• Supports IBM WebSphere Sensor Events        
• Commander processes file, e-mail and serial port triggers       
• 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        
• Commander can return XML status response as a file or through a TCP/IP port        
• Detailed print job status available to other programs using ActiveX        
• .NET SDK to control one BarTender at a time. (C# & VB.NET examples included)       
• .NET SDK to control multiple instances of BarTender at once        
• .NET SDK for BarTender System Database allows automated review and reprinting of past label jobs       
• .NET SDK for Librarian allows automated file add, remove, rename, check in and out, etc.        
• ASP.NET sample application for customizable web browser printing        
• Automated conversion of different XML formats using XSL style sheets        
• BarTender XML Command Scripts speed up automation and simplify remote control        

RFID SUPPORT  

• Full-featured native RFID objects       
• Basic RFID support only, using printer fonts        
• Encode EPC Gen2, EPC Class 1, ISO 18000-6b, ISO 15693, Tag-It,
• I-CODE, TagSys, My-d, and Picotag tag types      
• Supports DoD, Wal-Mart, and other EPC data formats, including SGTIN, SSCC, GIAI, GID, GRAI, SGLN      
• Support for many single and double-byte codepages, including Asian languages, UTF-8 and UTF-16      
• Able to duplicate either the text or hexadecimal representation of the 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) 

Supported Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2003 (SP1 and higher), Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, XP (SP3 and higher), Vista, and Windows 7. Includes all 32-bit and 64-bit (x64) editions.

Hard Disk:
Minimum 400 MB free space required for English-only version of BarTender.
Up to 1.1 GB free space required for full, multilingual BarTender Application Suite.
Additional free disk space required to enable optional logging of print jobs and event messages to a database.

CPU: 1 GHz or higher

Memory: 512 MB or higher

Display Resolution: 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 or higher recommended)

.NET Framework:
The .NET Framework 2.0 (SP2) is required. Part of .NET Framework 3.5 is required for Print Station. The BarTender installer will automatically install all required .NET Framework components. The 32-bit versions of the required .NET components are included on the CD. For older 64-bit operating systems (XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 pre-R2), the installer requires a live internet connection to download the required .NET components. Newer 64-bit operating systems (Vista, Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7) all ship with the required components.

Optional Database:
Logging of print jobs and event messages requires either Microsoft SQL 2005 Express (included with BarTender) or Microsoft SQL 2005 (or higher) Server (purchased from a database vendor).

Web Browser:
Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or higher required for History Explorer and BarTender help system.