Bartender Starter Edition – 1x License for 1x printer + 1x Year Standard Maintenance and Support
SIMPLE LABEL CREATION AND PRINTING FOR SMALL BUSINESS
Ideal for small businesses and departments that need to quickly and easily generate labels, including support for dynamic variable data from databases like Excel or CSV files.
- Create commercial-quality labels in-house
- Connect to Excel or CSV files for variable data
- Networked solution allows multiple users to manage templates and print
- Reduce process errors and waste
Easy label design tools
- An intuitive, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn 100% WYSIWYG interface for designing your labels with context-sensitive help
- Choose from over 105 1D and 2D symbologies based on over a dozen standards
- Select among 50+ drawing shapes, and resize, reshape and colour 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
Designed to support Amazon Transparency-compliant labels
- Pre-built templates connect to your Amazon-provided CSV file
Just-in-time, on-demand labelling
- Serialize labels by increments/decrements of 1
- Eliminate outdated or out of spec pre-printed label media
Delivers – The most frequently used label design features. Includes all text, graphics, bar code, and most serializing capabilities. Useful for keyboard and scanner-supplied label data only.
Omits – No access to external data. No password protection, VB Script customization, or string concatenation, and only limited text filtering. No custom-base serialization. Excludes all features omitted from the Professional Edition.
BarTender® 2021 edition comparison
| General | Starter | Professional | |
| Streamlined installation | Easy installation for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of BarTender® | • | • |
| Ease of use | Intuitive, easy-to-use user interface, translated to more than 20 languages | • | • |
| Quick start | A collection of configurable, industry-focused, ready-to-use BarTender documents | • | • |
| Comprehensive help system | A complete how-to library, accessible both through BarTender and on the web | • | • |
| Intelligent Templates™ | Design and automation tools that leverage data to reduce the number of label files | • | |
| Included printers | BarTender is licensed by printer — contact your authorized software vendor to obtain pricing | Up to 3 printers | 1+ printers |
| Unlimited users | Enable multiple users to print labels from any networked PC | • | • |
| Support | Starter | Professional | |
| 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 24hr response time. Access to online resources, plus technical support by email | Includes 1 year | Includes 1 year |
| Printer drivers and monitoring | Starter | Professional | |
| Drivers by Seagull™ | More than 6,500 printers and output devices supported to enable high-performance 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 | • | • |
| Status monitoring | Reports information back to Windows regarding printer/print job status and error conditions | • | • |
| Printer configuration and diagnostics | Perform printer management functions in BarTender, bypassing the printer front panel | • | • |
| Other printer drivers | Print to any printer that has a Windows-based driver | • | • |
| Email alerts | Automatically notify IT managers or other operational team members if labelling problems occur | • | • |
| Template design | Starter | Professional | |
| Easy WYSIWYG template design | Design tools make it easy to create and print professional labels and documents | • | • |
| New Document Wizard | An easy-to-follow wizard that ensures proper document settings for quality and printing performance | • | • |
| Fonts | Versatile support for OpenType, TrueType and native printer-based fonts | • | • |
| Text formatting | Familiar, Word-like tools for you to easily create and format text | • | • |
| Text transforms | 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 | • | • |
| Text wrapping | Create dynamic text that wraps inside and around shapes, objects, document borders and more | • | • |
| Unmatched barcode support | Easily create greater than 100 linear and 2D symbologies and standards | • | • |
| Barcode human-readable | Highly configurable human-readable text and character formatting options | • | • |
| 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 | • | • |
| GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard | Build barcodes in seconds using the latest GS1 compliance standards | • | • |
| Full colour support | Design commercial quality labels using PANTONE and data-sourced colours | • | |
| Intelligent Templates™ | Starter | Professional | |
| Layers | Template objects may be stacked, hidden and reordered when created on uniquely identifiable layers | • | |
| 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 | • | |
| Data sourcing and databases | Starter | Professional | |
| 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 | Connect to Excel or a RFC 4180 standard CSV file to import variable data into your template | • | • |
| Simple serialization | Increase or decrease your serial string data by increments of one (1) | • | • |
| 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 | • | |
| Embedded database tables | Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender 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 | • | |
| 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 | • | |
| Data-entry forms | Starter | Professional | |
| 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 | • | |
| 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 | • | |
| Printing, encoding and exporting | Starter | Professional | |
| Print productivity | Print labels and documents to any Windows-based printer | • | • |
| On-demand printing | Print labels and documents on-demand | • | • |
| Batch printing | Batch together dynamic print jobs that can use one or more BarTender templates | • | • |
| Print preview | Review your dynamic print jobs before printing | • | • |
| RFID, smart card and magnetic stripe encoding | Encode RFID tags, smartcards and magnetic strip cards as easily as adding barcodes to your template design | • | |
| Native PDF generation | Generate PDFs without installing third-party PDF drivers | • | |
BarTender Release 11.2 R1 and later versions
User-based Licensing – Licensing is based on the number of workstations running BarTender, regardless of whether or not they are on a common network.
**Please note, Bartender is not compatible with MAC operating systems. Bartender will no longer run on Windows 95 or Windows NT operating systems, as the recent version of the software does not support this. Please inform us if you are using the above operating systems so we can request the correct version from our suppliers.
System requirements and compatibility
OPERATING SYSTEM
- Windows 10 and 11
- Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016
- Includes all 32-bit and 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 (32-bit)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Hard drive: 20 GB (to allow sufficient space for logs)
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 2005 or higher (Express or Full edition).
- Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP3 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.
