Seagull Scientific BTP-PRO Bartender Label & RFID Software 10.1 Professional Edition Print Only Edition One User License

Includes - All of BarTender's most powerful label design features. Data access for network databases (using OLE DB and ODBC), as well as spreadsheets and text files. Supports RFID tags and labels. All card printing functions but only encodes magnetic stripes. Includes two of the Companion Applications: Batch Maker and Print Station.

Omits - No control from within other software. (No ActiveX, Commander or command lines.) No SAP or XML support. No job logging or e-mailed error alerts. Cannot export printer code templates. Excludes all features omitted from the Automation edition. No smart card encoding. No Printer Maestro. Does not include many of the Companion Applications.

General

• Licensed based on the number of PCs used

• Free phone and e-mail technical support for properly-registered users

• HTML-based context-sensitive help

• User interface translated into 20+ languages

Companion Applications

• Print Station. (Provides a simple "single-click" interface for selecting and printing BarTender documents)

• Batch Maker. (Defines and prints "batches" of multiple BarTender documents)

Template Design

• True WYSIWYG template design

• New Document Wizard ensures proper printer selection and allows maximum printing speed

• Two-sided (“duplex”) design and printing

• Point and click creation of all objects, including text, barcodes, lines, boxes, shapes, and graphic images

• To simplify conversion from legacy systems, import and lighten photographs of old labels, cards, or tags for use as a design aid

• Unlimited undo / redo command

• Resize and reposition objects using a choice of methods: Mouse, arrow keys, typed in values

• Functions for automatic alignment of multiple objects

• One-tenth degree rotation of lines, shapes, text, and graphics

• "Move to Front" and "Send to Back"

• Group and Ungroup multiple objects

• Live database view in objects in template design area

• Export barcodes to other programs

• Full color, pattern, and gradient support for all template objects

• Optional automatic borders for text, barcodes and graphics

• Combine multiple template objects into reusable components

• Library of "ready-to-print" label, card, and tag templates

• Thumbnail previews of saved BarTender documents, viewable both in BarTender and Windows explorer

• Metric and US measurements

Label Stock and Other Media

• Design templates up to 128 inches (3.25 m) long and/or wide (subject to limits of printer and driver)

• Any number of labels, cards, or tags, arranged in any number of rows and/or columns per sheet

• Page Setup Wizard assists with properly specifying media dimensions

• Database of thousands of name brand label, card, and tag sizes

• Rectangular, circular and elliptical media supported

Text

• Versatile font support: OpenType, TrueType, Adobe, PostScript, downloadable, and built-in printer fonts

• On-screen text editing and sizing

• Stretch text horizontally or vertically

• Automatic on-the-fly resizing of text to fit within predefined height and width

• Paragraph Formatting: Multiple alignment methods, line spacing control, indenting, and inter-paragraph spacing

• Kerning and inter-character spacing control

• Outline fonts

• Arc and circular text

• User-definable tab stops

• Support for RTF, HTML, and XAML

• White-on-black text printing (specified with a single mouse click)

Barcodes

• Numerous 1 and 2 dimensional symbologies

• Extensive library of industry-standard barcode formats

• Option to display start / stop characters

• Variable and unlimited width and height

• Minimum width limited only by printer resolution

• GS1 (formerly UCC/EAN)

• Automatic check digit capability

• Sequentially numbered barcodes

• Place "human readable" text anywhere in relation to barcodes

• 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, triangles, polygons, arrows, arcs, stars, and many other shapes

• Multiple dashed line styles and compound line styles

• Fill options for lines and shapes include solid color, multi-point gradient, pattern, and bitmap

• Import more than 70 graphic formats, including BMP, DCX, DIB, DXF, EPS, GIF, IMG, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, PDF, and more

• Integrated, online clip-art search and import

• TWAIN and WIA support for image scanners and cameras

• Basic image processing: Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sharpness, smoothing, cropping and more

• Industry-specific graphic symbol font libraries

• Linked graphics allow external graphics to change dynamically

• Specify background images and colors for templates

Printing

• More than 3,000 industrial printers supported

• True Windows drivers, can be used by other programs

• Seagull drivers with status monitor display printer status in the standard Windows spooler

• Two-sided (“duplex”) design and printing

• Multiple templates per document

• Integrated job separator templates

• Batch Maker defines and prints "batches" of multiple BarTender documents

• Print Station supports "single-click" document selection and printing

• Advanced on-screen print preview

• Advanced cutter control

• Set starting position on pages of partially used labels, cards or tags

• Supports printer-based barcodes, serial numbers, time, date, and copies

• Speed optimization reuses repeating data instead of resending it

• Print quantity can be set from keyboard or data source

• Local and network printer support

Card Printing & Encoding

• Print-time image capture, supporting WIA and VFW webcams

• Magnetic stripe encoding

Serialization

• Basic serialization: Numeric (base 10), alphabetic (base 26), and concatenated numeric and alphabetic sequences with increment / decrement by any interval

• Advanced serialization: Alphanumeric (base 36), hexadecimal (base 16), and custom base serialization

• Separate rollover / rollunder and value reset options

• Preserve or expand field length when rolling over

Data Sourcing

• Design print-time data entry forms for keyboard and barcode scanner data

• Microsoft OLE DB and ODBC support, including drivers for: Access, AS/400, Btrieve, dBase, Excel, Informix, Interbase, MySQL, Oracle database, Pervasive.SQL, PostgreSQL, Progress, SQL Server, Sybase, and more

• Read Excel files

• Read ASCII & Unicode text files (quote & comma, fixed width, and user-defined delimitation)

• 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

• Full-system Unicode support (field names, files, servers, printers, etc.)

• Visual Basic scripting for custom data processing

• Print-time search and replace function

• User-definable min and max field lengths

• Use and/or exclude select portions of database fields

• Customizable data-entry filters and error checking

• Multiple data sources concatenated per template object

• Source data with keyboard, time and date (from PC or printer)

• Easy entry of special and "unprintable" control characters

• Shareable data fields

• Data type support, including: text, date, time, number, currency, percentage, and fraction

Standard Integration

• Log to file: Errors and events

System Administration & Security

• Lock down documents with passwords

• Lock down BarTender into a password-protected "print-only" mode

• Log revision number and change descriptions into the document file

RFID Support

• Full-featured native RFID objects

• 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 either the text or hexadecimal representation of the RFID data in text and barcode 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. Select predefined or specify custom antenna bitmaps