BarTender Label Design Software – Professional Edition (Subscription License)

Secure anywhere, anytime internet printing

• Secure printing from any operating system or device
• Browser-based printing with no local client or app installed on the remote user’s system — the user never accesses your network
• Online approvals enable full and immediate printing control
• Comprehensive security with TSL/encryption and role-based access
• Driverless printing — no printer drivers required on server
• Print to PDF support

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

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 8,000 printer models supported with native, optimized drivers
• View, select and reprint labels and documents that might have been lost or damaged
• Conditional printing based on data-driven automation rules
• Print to PDF effortlessly with native PDF support

• Connect document designs to over 20 databases or file types, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, Microsoft Azure SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresSQL, SAP HANA, OLE DB and OLE ODBC
• Use standard data structures and formats such as XML, JSON, YAML, SAP IDoc, Oracle XML, ASCII & Unicode coded text-based data for data interchange
• Build and manage your own database without external databases
• 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

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

Advanced printing controls

• Conditional printing based on data-driven automation rules
• Print to PDF effortlessly with native PDF support
• Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs

Upgrade any time

• Upgrade to the more powerful BarTender Professional, Automation and Enterprise Editions as your business grows