BARTENDER ® AUTOMATION 2 PRINTERS


תוכנת עיצוב מדבקות וברקוד Bartender Automation 2022, מתממשקת לבסיסי נתונים EXCEL, SQL,TXT ועוד, עבודה מול מערכת הפעלה Windows10/11, עובדת עם כול מדפסות מדבקות הקיימות בארץ כולל מדפסות לייזר והזרקת דיו משרדיות. שנה אחריות ותמיכה מחברת Seagull Scientific



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BarTender® technical specifications

These specifications apply to the latest version of BarTender. 



System requirements and compatibility

OPERATING SYSTEM
  • Windows 10 and 11
  • Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016
  • 64-bit (x64) editions
  • An active internet connection may be required if Windows updates are required.
HARD DISK AND MEMORY (MINIMUM)

Below are the minimum system requirements to install and run BarTender. Please ensure your desired installation system meets or exceeds the specifications below. Recommended system specifications will vary based on the specific details of each project.

Complete BarTender Suite utilization (64-bit)

  • Memory:  8 GB RAM
  • Hard drive:  20 GB (to allow sufficient space for logs)
DISPLAY RESOLUTION
  • 1024 x 768 (Minimum)
  • 1920 x 1080 or better (Recommended)
.NET FRAMEWORK
  • .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later version is required
  • The BarTender installer will automatically install all required .NET Framework components
  • An active internet connection may be required to update .NET framework 
DATABASE
  • BarTender System Database, Librarian, History Explorer, and Reprint Console require Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or higher (Express or Full edition).
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Express is included with the BarTender suite.

Language support


International editions can switch the user interface on demand between 21 languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (European & Brazilian), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish.

Barcode support


BarTender includes over 400 preformatted, ready-to-use barcode components based on 105 barcode symbologies and more than a dozen barcode standards. It also includes a large number of sample compliance label designs.

Licensing


BarTender is licensed via an Application License and Printer License. BarTender Starter Edition supports a maximum of three (3) Printer Licenses. BarTender Professional, Automation and Enterprise Editions do not limit the number of Printer licenses. Available printers can be connected to a local computer or located anywhere on a LAN or WAN network. All BarTender Editions support an unlimited number of users.

BarTender 2022 features


General

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Business label design and management

Easy-to-use design tools and basic printing management

Dynamic business printing

Data entry forms, Intelligent Templates™, database connectivity,

encoding and manual printing

 

Efficient automated printing

Business system integration, intelligent forms, application building and automated printing

 

 

Comprehensive enterprise-wide printing

Centralized management including document, workflow and print management along with comprehensive security and high availability

 

 

 

Unlimited users

Enable multiple users to print labels from any networked PC

Number of printers

BarTender is licensed by printer

Up to 3 printers

1+ printers

2+ printers

2+ printers



Included companion applications

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Administration Console

Manage and configure BarTender administration and system settings

Designer

Create label and document templates — also serves as the print engine when integrating and automating the label printing process

History Explorer

Centralized data logging and audit trail including print history, user access and more

Data Builder

Build and manage your own database without external applications like Excel or Access

 

Print Station

A simple, efficient interface for selecting and printing BarTender documents

 

Print Portal

Allows dynamic web-based printing and workflow review/approval right from your web browser

 

Integration Builder

Connects BarTender with your business systems to enable automated printing directly from those systems

 

 

Process Builder

An easy, graphical UI to build your own custom label and document printing solutions without the need for coding, like C# or VB.NET

 

 

Reprint Console

Reprint identical copies of previously printed labels and documents that may have been misplaced or damaged

 

 

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Printer Maestro

Provides centralized print management tools for printers and print jobs throughout a corporate network

 

 

 

Librarian

Centrally manage documents and create workflows for template approval using role-based security

 

 

 



Support

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Standard Maintenance and Support

Upgrade to the latest BarTender version free, and get live technical support by phone and chat during business hours with a guaranteed 24 hour response time. Access to online resources, plus technical support

Includes 1 year

Includes 1 year

Includes 1 year

Includes 1 year

Premium Maintenance and Support

Add-on option to Standard Maintenance and Support which provides 24/7 live support access with a guaranteed two hour response time

 

 



Easy-To-Use Design

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Easy WYSIWYG template design

Design tools make it easy to create and print professional labels and documents

Global support

Intuitive, easy-to-use user interface, translated to more than 20 languages

Comprehensive help system

A complete how-to library, accessible both through BarTender and on the web

Quick start

A collection of configurable, industry-focused, ready-to-use BarTender templates

New Document Wizard

An easy-to-follow wizard that ensures proper document settings for quality and printing performance

Fonts

Versatile support for OpenType, TrueType, Symbol Font characters and native printer-based fonts

Text formatting

Familiar, MS Word-like tools for creating and formating text

Transformed text

Add flair to your text objects with a variety of effects, such as fading, inflating, slanting, and more

Shapes and lines

Choose from over 50 shapes and 100 line style combinations

Dynamic text and object wrapping

Create dynamic text that wraps inside and around shapes, objects, document borders and more

Unmatched barcode support

Choose from over 100 1D and 2D symbologies based on over a dozen standards

Human readable barcode

Highly configurable human readable text and character formatting options

GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard

Construct GS1-compliant barcodes in seconds

Graphics and images

Import more than 70 graphic formats, including AI, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, EPS and GIF

Symbols

Choose from a wide variety of included symbols and industry-based symbol fonts

Tables and grids

Create tables and grids to organize text, barcodes, images and other objects

White-on-black printing

Switch objects from black-on-white to white-on-black printing with a single click

Front and back template design

Create two-sided, “duplex” printing with separate designs for the front and back of your template

Amazon Transparency support

Create Amazon Transparency product serialization codes that help identify individual units and proactively prevent counterfeits

Embedded revision logging

Capture a revision trail directly in the document — when it was saved, who saved it and include additional comments

 

Full color support

Design commercial quality labels using PANTONE and data-sourced colors

 



Intelligent Templates™

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Suppression

Ignore the content of a data source under certain conditions

Label templates

Design and automation tools that leverage data to reduce the number of label files you manage

 

Conditional printing

Create data-driven automation rules that specify when different objects, layers or templates in your document will visibly print or become hidden

 

Template selector

Conditionally print one specific template when multiple templates are available in a document

 

Layers

Template objects may be stacked, hidden and reordered when created on uniquely identifiable layers

 

Automatic face detection and cropping

Automated image capture creates perfectly cropped photos for ID badges and card printing

 

Scriptable object properties

Modify the look and feel of template objects by using powerful Visual Basic (VB) scripts

 



Dynamic data and databases

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Date and time

Dynamically source dates and times from Windows or clock-enabled printers

Data validation and processing

Specify data validation rules and automatically correct data or issue warnings

Concatenate data

Create text and barcode objects that combine information from multiple data sources

Basic database connectivity

Import variable data from Excel or a RFC 4180 standard CSV files into your template

Simple serialization

Increase or decrease your serial string data by increments of one (1)

Named database connections

Name commonly used database connections to quickly add them to new document designs

Database filters

Print select database records using convenient query and filter options

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Database sourced tables

Easily create tables using data from a database or external file

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Dynamic data preview

See how your document handles real dynamic data during the design process

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Dynamic graphics and images

Automatically source images for printing based on selected database records or queries

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Embedded database tables

Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs

 

Enhanced database connectivity

Connect document designs to over 20 data sources such as SAP, Oracle, MS SQL, Azure SQL, XML, Excel, text files and more to print dynamically

 

Advanced serialization

Create serial numbers that support alphanumeric, hexadecimal and custom sequencing patterns

 

Create a database

Build your own database from scratch using intuitive tools included with BarTender

 

Write back to databases

Write back to SQL-based databases to keep track of printed records, serial numbers and much more

 

Visual Basic (VB) scripting

Create scripts for custom data processing

 

Global database field

Centralize a data field and share it between BarTender documents

 

Advanced global database field

Centralize a data field and share it between BarTender documents and workstations

 

 

 

Phrase library

Build your own library of standard multi-lingual text including autotranslate and TMX export/import

 

 

 



Data-entry forms

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Database record selection

Select or query the correct database records at print time using helpful form controls

 

Powerful form controls

Make data input and selection easy by leveraging over 15 highly configurable form controls

 

Keyboard and mouse input

Use keyboard and mouse commands to select or enter data into forms at print time

 

Scanner input

Use a barcode scanner to input information to data entry forms at print time

 

Weighing scale input

Populate the weight of an item at print time by connecting your weighing scale to BarTender

 

Image capture

Capture images at print time for ID cards or event badge printing

 

Data validation

Reduce user input errors by introducing data validation and error checking

 



Integration and automation

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Intelligent Forms

Create forms that run automated processes and actions based on user selections, user input or during certain events

 

 

Document Level Actions

Reduce manual efforts by triggering actions in response to events such as printing

 

 

Business systems

Seamlessly integrate automated label and document printing with any business system (ERP, WMS, or MES), including SAP, Oracle, Infor, Körber, Microsoft, Epicor, NetSuite and Sage

 

 

Integrations

Web services: Use RESTful web services to exchange data in real-time to run actions

 

 

 

File drop: Monitor local, network and cloud-based folder locations (including Amazon S3, Dropbox, FTP/SFTP) to run actions and automate

 

 

 

Email: Monitor email and print according to its contents

 

 

 

TCP/IP sockets: Stream data to run actions using this bidirectional communication method

 

 

 

Database monitoring: Monitor when data is inserted or changed in database table fields to run actions

 

 

 

RS232 Serial: Run actions when data is received

 

 

 

Other: Run actions according to a time schedule or when a message is posted to a Microsoft Message Queue

 

 

Integration data

Integrate automated printing processes using common data structures and formats such as XML, JSON, SAP IDOC, Oracle XML, ASCII & Unicode coded text-based data

 

 

Integration actions

Enable label printing, database queries, network communications and much more with over 70 action types

 

 

.NET SDK

Seamlessly integrate printing, scheduling, document management, revision control and database functionality (including ActiveX Automation and Command Line/Shell Script support)

 

 

BarTender REST API

Seamlessly integrate BarTender actions to automate printing and business processes

 

 

Print Portal REST API

Seamlessly integrate Print Portal web printing

 

 

 



Printing, encoding and exporting

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Drivers by SeagullTM

More than 7,000 printers and output devices supported to enable highperformance printing

Print optimizations

Improve print speed by taking full advantage of printer-based features such as serialization, barcodes, real-time clock, static data and graphic caching

Windows printer drivers

Print to any printer that has a Windows-based driver

Printer configuration and diagnostics

Perform printer management functions in BarTender, bypassing the printer front panel

On-demand and batch printing

Print labels and documents on-demand or batch together using one or more BarTender templates

Print preview

Review your dynamic print jobs before printing

Image exporting

Export entire template images or specific objects in 35+ formats

RFID, smartcard and magnetic stripe encoding

Encode RFID tags, smartcards and magnetic stripe cards as easily as adding barcodes to your template design

 

Native PDF generation

Generate PDFs without installing third-party PDF drivers

 

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Printer code templates

Design templates in BarTender and export printer code that can be used with other print systems

 

 

Web printing

Secure anywhere, any time internet printing from any browser

 

Reprint labels and documents

Reprint identical copies of previously printed labels and documents that may been misplaced or damaged

 

 

Printer failover

Automatically redirect to another printer in the event of printer failure

 

 

 



Centralized Management

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Centralized role-based permission management

Centrally manage user and group roles for printing and management features

 

 

 

Centralized document storage

Track and manage the entire organization's label templates in one place

 

 

 

Template files and revision control

Manage revisions across the organization - roll out changes in an instant to all users

 

 

 

Optimized label design workflows

Define design and publishing workflows to enable management and traceability including web-based Print Portal support

 

 

 

Define workflow team

Increase team accountability during the label revision and publishing process

 

 

 

Workflow Designer

Speed up label design, review and production process with drag and drop visual Workflow Designer

 

 

 

System audit trail

Review history of print jobs, document changes, electronic signatures and user actions

 

 

 



Security, monitoring and alerts

Starter

Professional

Automation

Enterprise

Status monitoring

Reports information back to Windows regarding printer/print job status and error conditions

Email alerts

Automatically notify IT managers or other operational team members if labeling problems occur

Role-based security

Assign permissions to applications and functions using Windows Active Directory users and groups, or local Windows users

 

Document and printing password

Require a password to design and/or print

 

Electronic signatures

Enable for audit trail accountability and regulatory compliance

 

 

 

Document encryption

Secure document usage between validated BarTender workstations

 

 

 

Backup and resilient licensing server

Improve business continuity and disaster recovery with high availability options

 

 

 



† The Enterprise Edition supports unlimited centralized logging; The Starter, Professional and Automation Editions support the logging of up to seven days of data to a local database only.

‡ Supports web-based printng only

§ The Enterprise Edition supports reprints with no restrictions; The Automation Edition supports unlimited reprinting of documents from the logged print jobs.

# Basic databases only (Excel or RFC 4180 standard CSV file)

¶ Enterprise Edition supports unlimited days of reprinting records, while Automation Edition supports 7 days of reprinting records

* Unlimited PDF printing for BarTender 2022 Enterprise Edition with 100 or more printer licenses and an active Maintenance and Support Agreement.  Each printer license can support both a physical printer and 5,000 PDF printing per week. For more details on PDF printing limits.

BarTender 2022 R4 and later versions