Bartender - Newstech Technology Co.Ltd

Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP)

BarTender is built from the ground up to connect ERPs to labeling, enabling the agile change management and the single source of labeling strategies regulatory compliance demands. Integration Builder seamlessly integrates your labeling with virtually any business system, WMS, MES, SCM, TMS or ERP, including systems from Oracle, SAP, IBM, Sage, Infor, Körber (formerly HighJump), NetSuite, Epicor and Microsoft Dynamics.

Printers

Print to any Windows output device: thermal, laser, inkjet, card, DPM, RFID encoder — we’ve built Drivers by Seagull™ for over 7,000 different printers that support optimum printing performance with no additional coding, to power the labeling and marking that drive your business.

Databases

BarTender creates dynamic links to databases with intuitive wizards and Intelligent Templates™, connecting your labeling to over 20 databases and file types, including Access, Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, QuickBooks Online and XML.

Easy label design and printing

Label data populated from Excel or CSV files

Basic serialization : increment or decrement numbers by 1

Simple implementation for Amazon Transparency

Industry-leading barcode support

Enable multiple users to print from any networked PC

Support for up to three printers
"Everything in Starter, plus: BarTender Intelligent Templates™ eliminate the need to create and maintain hundreds of separate templates Secure anywhere, any time internet printing Source label data from over 20 databases including SQL, Excel Online and QuickBooks Online Design commercial-quality labels using PANTONE colors Encode RFID inlays, smart cards or even magnetic stripes as easily as creating a barcode Support for unlimited number of printers"

BarTender 2022 Features by Edition

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,		•	•	•
Dynamic business printing	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	3+ 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			§	•
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	#	•	•	•
Database sourced tables	Easily create tables using data from a database or external file	#	•	•	•
Dynamic data preview	See how your document handles real dynamic data during the design process	#	•	•	•
Dynamic graphics and images	Automatically source images for printing based on selected database records or queries	#	•	•	•
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		*	*	*
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 printing 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.