Powerful design tools with Intelligent Templates™
- BarTender Intelligent Templates™ eliminate the need to create and maintain hundreds of separate templates
- Choose from over 100 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 graphics
- Full support for automatic sizing for text, barcode and picture objects
- Design commercial quality labels using PANTONE and data-sourced colors
- Create and print commercial-quality designs using the PANTONE Color System
Secure anywhere, any time internet printing
- Secure printing from any operating system or device with BarTender Print Portal
- Browser-based printing with no local client or app installed on the remote user’s system — the user never accesses your network
- Comprehensive security with TSL/encryption and role-based access
- Driverless printing — no printer drivers required on server
- Print to PDF support
Diverse database support
- Connect document designs to over 20 data sources including text files, XML, JSON, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Microsoft Azure SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresSQL, SAP IDoc, SAP HANA, OLE DB and OLE ODBC to print dynamically
- Access cloud data sources including Microsoft Excel Online, Google Sheets and Intuit QuickBooks Online
- Automatically source data and images from database or external files for printing
- Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs
Dynamic data
- Advanced serialization allows you to create serial numbers using alphanumeric, hexadecimal or your own custom sequencing pattern
- 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
- Specify data validation rules and automatically correct data or issue warnings
Data entry forms
- Create dynamic, easily accessible forms that standardize the data capture and label print process
- Make data input and selection easy by leveraging over 15 highly configurable form controls
- Reduce user input errors by introducing data validation and error checking
- Use a barcode scanner, keyboard or mouse to input information to data-entry forms at print time
Advanced printing controls
- More than 6,800 printer models supported with native, optimized drivers
- Conditionally print templates, template objects and layers using data-driven automation rules
- Print to PDF effortlessly without installing third-party PDF drivers
- Preview dynamic print jobs before printing
- Print labels and documents on-demand or batch together using one or more BarTender templates
RFID and smart card encoding support
- Encode RFID inlays including EPC support as easily as adding a barcode to your template design
- Encoding support for smart cards and magnetic stripe cards
Upgrade any time
- Upgrade to the more powerful BarTender Automation and Enterprise Editions and maintain continuity as your business grows
- Includes all the features in Starter Edition
