Seagull Scientific BT-BSC Bartender Label & RFID Software 10.1 Basic Edition

Includes – The most frequently used label design features. Includes all text, graphics, barcode, and most serializing capabilities. Useful for keyboard and scanner-supplied label data only. Most card printing functions, but only encodes magnetic stripes. Print Station is the only included Companion Application.

Omits – No access to external data. No password protection of label formats, no VB Script customization, and only limited text filtering. No custom-base serialization. Excludes all features omitted from Professional, plus no Batch Maker.

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)

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

• 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

• 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 (3.25m) 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

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

• Kerning and inter-character spacing control

• Outline fonts

• User-definable tab stops

• 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

• Industry-specific graphic symbol font libraries

• 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

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

• Advanced on-screen print preview

• 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

• 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

• 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

Data Processing

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

• User-definable min and max field lengths

• 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