Seagull BarTender Editions Features Comparison Chart

PS- Enterprise Print Server  R- RFID Enterprise  E- Enterprise  P-Professional   B-Basic

EDITIONS:	PS	R	E	P	B
GENERAL
Printer-Based Licensing	•	•	•
User-Based Licensing				•	•
Free Phone and Email Technical Support	•	•	•	•	•
HTML-Based Context-Sensitive Help	•	•	•	•	•
User Interface Translated into 20 Languages	•	•	•	•	•
Full-system Unicode Support (fieldnames, files, servers, printers, etc.)	•	•	•	•	•
Password Protection	•	•	•	•
LABEL DESIGN
True WYSIWYG Label Design	•	•	•	•	•
"New Label" Wizard ensures proper label setup and optimizes performance	•	•	•	•	•
Drag and Drop Creation of all Objects, Including Lines, Boxes and  Graphic Images	•	•	•	•	•
Unlimited undo / redo command	•	•	•	•	•
Functions for automatic alignment of multiple objects	•	•	•	•	•
One-tenth Degree Rotation of Lines, Boxes, Text, and Graphics	•	•	•	•	•
Export Bar Codes and Labels for Use in Other Programs	•	•	•	•
Full Color Support (including text backgrounds and shape fills)	•	•	•	•	•
Customizable Print-Time Prompts for Keyboard/Scanner Data	•	•	•	•	•
Library of "Ready-to-Print" Formats	•	•	•	•	•
Customizable Library of Reusable Components	•	•	•	•	•
Thumbnail Previews of Saved Label formats, viewable both in BarTender and Windows Explorer	•	•	•	•	•
Metric and US Measurement Systems	•	•	•	•	•
LABEL STOCK
Any label size	•	•	•	•	•
Any number of label rows and columns per sheet	•	•	•	•	•
Automatic computation of label size from number of rows and columns	•	•	•	•	•
Database of thousands of common industry label stock dimensions	•	•	•	•	•
Rectangular label outline	•	•	•	•	•
Circular and elliptical label outlines	•	•	•	•
TEXT
Versatile font support: TrueType, Adobe, PostScript, downloadable, and built-in printer fonts	•	•	•	•	•
On-Screen Text Editing	•	•	•	•	•
Rich Text Formatting	•	•	•	•
Scale Text Horizontally or Vertically	•	•	•	•	•
Auto-Size Text to Fit Preset Heights and Widths	•	•	•	•
Basic Paragraph Support: Aligning and Spacing	•	•	•	•	•
Advanced Paragraph Support: Justifying and Indenting	•	•	•	•
User-Definable Tab Stops	•	•	•	•
White-on-Black Text Printing (specified with a single mouse click)	•	•	•	•	•
Arc and circular text	•	•	•	•
BAR CODES
Numerous 1D Symbologies	•	•	•	•	•
Numerous 2D Symbologies	•	•	•	•
Extensive Library of Industry-Standard Bar Code Formats	•	•	•	•	•
Option to Display Start/Stop Characters	•	•	•	•	•
Variable and Unlimited Width and Height	•	•	•	•	•
Minimum Width Limited Only by Printer Resolution	•	•	•	•	•
UCC / EAN 128 Application Identifier Setup Wizard	•	•	•	•	•
Automatic Check Digit Capability	•	•	•	•	•
Sequentially Numbered Bar Codes	•	•	•	•	¡
Place "human readable" text anywhere in relation to bar codes	•	•	•	•	•
Customizable "human readable" character template	•	•	•	•	•
Independently suppress or display characters from different   sub-fields	•	•	•	•
GRAPHICS, IMAGES AND SYMBOLS
Draw lines, circles, ellipses, rectangles, rounded rectangles and filled rectangles	•	•	•	•	•
Import more than 70 graphic formats, including BMP, DXC, DIB, DXF, EPS, GIF, IMG, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, and more	•	•	•	•	•
Industry-specific graphic symbol font libraries	•	•	•	•	•
Specify background images and colors to appear "behind" label designs	•	•	•	•	•
PRINTING
Over fifteen hundred industrial label printers supported	•	•	•	•	•
True Windows drivers, can be used by other programs	•	•	•	•	•
Seagull drivers with status monitor display printer status in the standard Windows spooler	•	•	•	•	•
Support for XML enabled printers	•	•	•
Advanced On-screen Print Preview	•	•	•	•	•
Advanced Cutter Control	•	•	•	•
Set starting position on pages of partially used labels	•	•	•	•	•
Supports printer-based bar codes, serial numbers and copies	•	•	•	•	•
Job logging	•	•	•
Speed Optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending	•		•	•	•
Local and network printer support	•	•	•	•	•
Identical and/or serialized copies controllable from keyboard   and database	•	•	•	•
SERIALIZATION
Basic Serialization (Increment, Numeric Base 10)	•	•	•	•	•
Numeric, alphabetic, and alphanumeric increment/ decrement by any interval	•	•	•	•	•
Separate rollover/rollunder and value reset options	•	•	•	•	•
Preserve or expand field length when rolling over	•	•	•	•	•
Base 36 and custom base serialization	•	•	•	•
DATABASE OPTIONS
Microsoft ODBC Support, Including Drivers for: Access, AS/400, Btrieve, dBase, Excel, FoxPro, Informix, Interbase, Linux, MySQL, Oracle, Paradox, Pervasive.SQL, PostSQL, Progress, SQL Server, Sybase, and More	•	•	•	•
Read Excel files	•	•	•	•
Read ASCII & Unicode text files (Quote & comma, fixed width & user-defined delimitation)	•	•	•	•
SAP certified interface to IDocs	•	•	•
Oracle XML label requests automatically parsed	•	•	•
Drag and drop data linking	•	•	•	•
Versatile multiple-table data access	•	•	•	•
Import variable graphics from databases	•	•	•	•
Data query wizard and custom SQL assistant	•	•	•	•
Individual record-picking at print time	•	•	•	•
DATA PROCESSING
Visual Basic scripting for custom data processing	•	•	•	•
User-Definable Min and Max field lengths	•	•	•	•
Use and/or exclude select portions of database fields	•	•	•	•
Customizable data-entry filters and error checking	•	•	•	•
Custom configure the handling of individual messages and alerts	•	•	•
Multiple sub-fields concatenated per label object	•	•	•	•
Source data with time & date, keyboard (from PC or printer)	•	•	•	•	•
Easy entry of special and "unprintable" control characters	•	•	•	•	•
Shareable data fields	•	•	•	•
INTEGRATION
Can be run as "background" application	•	•	•
Specify label formats and data sources from within other programs	•	•	•
Automated printer selection	•	•	•
Logs errors and events to a file	•	•	•	•
Logs errors and events via e-mail	•	•	•
Can email user-defined messages	•	•	•	•
Command line control from other programs	•	•	•	•
ActiveX automation	•	•	•
"Commander" integration software utility	•	•	•
• Runs as application or 2000/2003/XP service	•	•	•
• Looks for incoming data files and/or e-mails and initiates print jobs	•	•	•
• Logs errors and events to a file and/or via email	•	•	•
Generate and export printer code templates, including Oracle XML & SAPscript-ITF	•	•	•
SHARED, CENTRALIZED PRINT SERVICES
Optimized to handle high-volume printing requests using a single copy of BarTender running on a server	•
Available web application allows selection and launch of label jobs from any operating system that can run a web browser	•
ADVANCED INTEGRATION
Enhanced version of Commander supports triggers and data transmission using TCP/IP	•
Commander optimized to receive, launch, and monitor new print jobs without waiting for existing jobs to finish	•
Automated conversion of different XML formats using XSL style sheets	•
BarTender XML Command Scripts speed up automation and simplify remote control	•
Detailed print job status available using ActiveX	•
RFID SUPPORT
Encode EPC Gen2, EPC Class 1, ISO 18000-6b, ISO 15693, Tag-It, I-CODE, TagSys, My-d, and PIcotag tag types	•	•
Supports DoD, Wal-Mart, and other EPC data formats, including SGTIN, SSCC, GIAI, GID, GRAI, SGLN	•	•
Support for many single and double-byte codepages, including Asian languages, UTF-8 and UTF-16	•	•
Able to duplicate RFID data in text and bar code form	•	•
Supports optional write protection	•	•
Segment and Start Block support, including writing to multiple blocks	•	•
Able to configure printer's RFID options (e.g., Transponder Offset and Maximum Retries)	•	•
Display antenna, chip and substrate on label. (Images specified by predefined or custom antenna bitmaps.)	•	•

Seagull International Language Support
BarTender is available in international Editions that support on-demand switching of the displayed user-interface language between the following:

Chinese (Simplified & Traditional)	German	Portuguese (European & Brazilian)
Czech	Greek	Polish
Danish	Hungarian	Russian
Dutch	Italian	Spanish
English	Japanese	Swedish
Finnish	Korean	Thai
French	Norwegian	Turkish

Seagull Bar Code Support

Linear Bar Codes
AIAG	FIM A	Royal Mail
Australia Post	FIM C	RSS
Canadian Customs	HIBC Primary	SCC-14
Codabar	HIBC Secondary	SSCC-18
Code 128	Interleaved 2 of 5	Telepen
Code 39 (Regular & Full ASCII)	ISBT 128	Tri-Optic
Code 93	ITF-14	UCC-EAN 128
EAN 128	Japanese Post	UPC-A
EAN Bookland	KIX Code	UPC-E
EAN-JAN-8	LOGMARS	UPS Tracking
EAN-JAN-13	MSI Plessey	US Postal
Two Dimensional Bar Codes
Aztec	Maxicode	TLC39
Datamatrix	PDF417 (Micro & Standard)	EAN.UCC Composite
QR Code (Micro & Standard)

Seagull Supported Printers
BarTender supports any printer with a Windows driver. In addition to virtually all laser, ink-jet and dot-matrix printers, this includes the following, for which Seagull has developed its own enhanced Windows printer drivers: