BarTender Label Software Editions
The Professional Edition is ideal for departments and small businesses and offers an easy to use interface which includes RFID encoding and enables you to leverage content from databases, spreadsheets and other files for sophisticated label and card designs.
Key functionality:
- Reduce label maintenance with Intelligent Templates™
- Simplify complex printing with configurable data-entry forms
- Enhance data accuracy by connecting to files and databases
- Increase productivity with powerful design tools
The Automation Edition is ideal for businesses that are looking to automate labelling to increase speed and accuracy and provides tools to manage and integrate label and document printing with the organization’s business systems.
Key functionality:
- Increased efficiency with seamless integration to virtually any business system
- Tailored integration to your business systems with .NET SDK and API access
- Reduce label maintenance with Intelligent Templates™
- Enable secure printing operations
The Enterprise Edition is ideal for businesses that operate in regulated industries or span multiple locations and need to control design and printing throughout the organization.
Key functionality:
- Web-enabled print and workflow approval process anywhere, anytime with PRINT PORTAL
- Advanced, always-on high availability
- Manage, secure and control your entire solution across all printing locations
- Enable compliance with the most demanding industry regulations
Create
Powerful design tools with Intelligent Templates™
- A 100% WYSIWYG interface for designing your labels with context-sensitive help to provide faster set up of integrations
- Choose from over 105 1D and 2D symbologies based on over a dozen standards
- Select among 50+ drawing shapes, and resize, reshape and color them in just about any way imaginable, or import your own.
- Full support for automatic text wrapping and adding of fields to text objects
- Support for human readable text for barcodes, including 2D symbologies
- Create and print commercial-quality designs using the PANTONE Color System
Diverse database support
- Supports over 20 major databases or data file types including MS SQL, Excel/Online, QuickBooks Online, Access, XML, JSON, CSV, and IBM DB2
Dynamic data
- Automatically source data and images from database or external files for printing
- Write back to most SQL-based databases to record serial numbers generated by BarTender or keep track of which database records have already been printed.
- Make data input and selection easy by leveraging over 15 highly configurable form controls
Advanced printing controls
- Conditional printing based on data-driven automation rules
- Print to PDF effortlessly with native PDF support
- Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs
RFID and smart card encoding support
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Automate
Flexible integration supports broad interoperability
- Create new business processes and support existing ones with a comprehensive set of integration methods and actions
- Build triggers using methods including: HTTP web service (REST or SOAP), file drop, database monitoring, e-mail, TCP or UDP network port, serial port and MSMQ
- Select from a variety of different data formats including: JSON, XML, SOAP, CSV and other text file formats
- Enable label printing, database queries, network communications and much more with over 70 action types
- .NET SDK for custom-built applications or web-based front ends
- Integrate with the BarTender print engine, print scheduler, print server and system database APIs
Automate printing based on data entry events
- Create Intelligent Forms that run automated print-time processes and other actions based on user input and events.
- No coding or programming required
Enable security
- Role-based access and security
- Password protect editing and printing documents
- Status monitoring
- Email alerts for critical printing issues
Advanced printing controls
- More than 6,500 printer models supported with native, optimized drivers
- Supports all printers with a Windows printer driver
- Conditional printing based on data-driven automation rules
- Print to PDF effortlessly with native PDF support
- Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs
Manage
Faster label design, approval and publishing
- Drag and drop visual Workflow Designer
- Increase label document QA and team accountability
- Track the status of label files from start to finish
- Configurable email notifications for each document state, approval, and transition
Centralized document storage and management
- Librarian label document management system provides a secure central repository of label templates and documents
- Version control and audit trail
- (New feature preview) Phrase Library for building multi-lingual text database with Auto-Translate and TMX file support
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Comprehensive security and auditable processes
- Secure document access with role-based security and user permissions
- Electronic signatures
- Document encryption and access controls
- Printing access controls
Enhanced reliability for mission-critical environments
- Improved disaster recovery and backup options
- Enhanced failover license support
- Resilient licensing for fault tolerance
Manage traceability and serialization to meet industry regulations
- Capture electronic signatures, data logs and complete audit trail
- Support industry regulations including 21 CFR Part 11, UDI, MDR, FMD and FSMA
- Coordinate serialization at printers across your network