Easy to Learn, Easy to Use
With BarTender, a few quick mouse motions are all it takes to combine bar codes, text and graphics into professional quality labels. And moving and resizing objects on your labels is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
- Simply click on a label object to select it.
- Drag it to a new position with a quick, easy mouse movement.
- Stretch objects just as easily.
And customizing is easy too, with carefully organized menus and pop-up"" dialogs that display even the most advanced options in plain, easy-to-understand words. And, with the industry's most powerful Undo command, even beginners never have to worry about mistakes. And advanced users still have all the power they'll ever need. (For more details on designing labels, view our sample design session.)
Exceptional Design Flexibility
BarTender gives you total control over your label's appearance, including the type and size of text, bar codes and graphics. Place objects exactly where you want them and control rotation as precisely as 1 degree. You're limited only by your imagination.
Latest Windows Technology
Strict adherence to Microsoft's official user-interface guidelines, means if you've used just one other Windows program you're ready to start designing labels.
High Precision On-Screen Display
BarTender's design mode gives you an extraordinarily accurate ""real-time"" view of your label. There is also a Print Preview mode that even reads your external data sources, so it can display exactly how your labels are going to look before you print them. That means you can design more quickly without wasting labels.
Designer Typefaces, Even on Thermal Printers
BarTender and Seagull's printer drivers offer an extraordinary variety of font capabilities. Use printer fonts for maximum speed and Windows fonts for the most flexible styling. Many printer drivers now even support font downloading for an optimum combination of font variety and printing performance.
""Instant"" Bar Codes
BarTender's toolbox gives you instant access to an extensive set of predefined bar code components. ""Drag and drop"" bar codes into your label designs using a single, quick mouse motion. Use our predefined components ""as is"" or customize as desired.
Rich Text with Data Sourcing
""Rich Text"" allows individual text objects to contain multiple typefaces (Times, Arial, etc.) and styles (bold, italic, etc.). BarTender raises the power of rich text to a whole new level by allowing you to source the different parts of a rich text object with external data fields. For example, you might use one font style for some static text and use other styles for some of you changing text.
Import and Export Graphics
It's easy to add company logos and pictures of products. BarTender supports most major graphic formats. You can also export bar codes for use in other software packages.
Advanced, Customizable Serialization
Generate anything from the simplest serial numbers to the most advanced, totally custom serialization sequences. Increment or decrement by any interval and specify any rollover threshold and restart value. Choose from numeric, alpha, or a variety of predefined alphanumeric character sets. Even specify your own totally custom sequences.
Compliance Labels and Ready-to-Print Formats
Sometimes a customer or outside agency demands a particular label design. ""Compliance"" with such external specifications can be challenging, especially if it requires something your label software just can't do. Maybe one of our numerous predesigned label formats is all you need. We've familiarized ourselves with numerous commonly used standards in order to build BarTender into the most full-featured compliance-labeling tool available. Whether you're using one of our many ready-to-print formats, or designing labels from scratch, BarTender has the power and flexibility you need for thousands of comp