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BarTender Specifications
Specifications and Feature Summary
[Please note that items in red are only available in the 32-bit version of the product.)
System Requirements
- System Requirements 16-bit version usable on Windows version 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, or NT
- 32-bit version designed for use on Windows 95, 98, and NT only
- For Windows 3.1: A 286 processor and 2 megabytes of RAM required. A 386 and at least 4MB RAM suggested
- For Windows 95 and 98: A 386 and at least 4MB RAM.
- For Windows NT: A 386 and at least 20MB RAM
- 1 printer port (parallel or serial)
Between 2.6MB and 6MB hard disk usage, depending on version and options installed. Add 5MB if installing all ODBC drivers
- Special Versions Available
- Not all versions may be available for online purchase. Please E-mail or call (1-408-354-7733) us for pricing and availability.
- Lower cost print-only version
- Specially discounted run-time and network licenses
- English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese version
Printer Support
- BarTender Standard supports standard Windows printers, such as laser, ink-jet, dot-matrix, and label printers with existing Windows drivers (see Professional version below for high speed label printing)
- BarTender Professional supports not only the above printer types, but also two types of Seagull's own printer drivers
- Our enhanced Windows drivers give the BarTender Pro access to numerous high-speed commands available in a variety of thermal label printers, but not available when using drivers from the printer manufacturers themselves. Seagull currently provides enhanced drivers for Intermec, Fargo/Datamax, Zebra, Sato, C.Itoh, Ring, and Cognitive Solutions Blazer. (These drivers may also be used by other Windows programs, but with performance comparable to that of standard Windows drivers.)
- Also includes standard Windows drivers for Printronix, Cognitive Solutions Blazer, OTC and IBI. (These drivers may also be used by other Windows programs.)
- Selectable printer port and communication speed
- Seagull printer drivers usable by other Windows programs and shareable across networks
- Set starting position on pages of partially used labels.
Label Design
- True On-screen WYSIWYG display
- Choice of rectangular or circular label outline.
- Multiple concurrent design sessions (through MDI).
- Unlimited Undo/Redo command.
- Create bar code and text objects with single mouse click
- Unlimited size and number of bar code and text fields
- Lines, boxes and graphic images
- Resize objects by stretching with mouse
- Reposition objects by moving with mouse
- Resize and reposition objects by typing in values
- Keyboard equivalents for all available mouse actions.
- Full color support
- Move to front, send to back
- Group and ungroup multiple objects
- Automatic positioning and alignment functions
- Rotate objects by 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees
- Includes numerous “ready-to-print” formats
Label Stock
- Unlimited maximum label size
- Minimum label size: 1/10” x 1/10”
- Unlimited label rows and columns per sheet
- Independent top, bottom, left and right margins
- Computation of label size from number of rows and columns
- Separately controllable label height & vertical repeat distance
On-Screen Display
- Precision, true WYSIWYG label design
- On-screen display of label stock
- Cursor automatically changes depending on action
- Optional display of cursor coordinates
- Thumbnail previews of saved labels
- Comment area for saving notes on label designs
- Convenient pull-down menus
- Tabbed-dialogs for fast customizing
- Menu short-cut keys for rapid access
- Windows 95 & NT 4.0-style “right mouse button” support
- Three separately moveable tool bars
- Tools tips help identify unfamiliar icons
- User-configurable design grid size
- Adjustable resolution positioning rulers
- Metric and Standard American system units
- User-configurable zoom parameters
- Optional snap-to-grid
Bar Codes
- Independent height and width settings
- Unlimited maximum width and height
- No minimum height
- Minimum width limited only by printer resolution
- Move and resize using mouse
- Automatic check digit capability
- Sequentially numbered bar codes
- Numerous supported symbologies, including 2D codes:
- Regular and Full ASCII Code 3-of-9 (including LOGMARS, HIBC, AIAG, etc.)
- Code 128 (including all UCC/EAN-128 & Shipping Container Codes)
- Interleaved 2-of-5
- UPC-A & E
- UPC Supplementals
- Code 93
- Postal Bar Codes (including Zip+4 and DPBC)
- Codabar
- EAN-8 & 13
- JAN
- MSI Plessey
- PDF417
- Code 1 (Intermec printers only)
- Data Matrix
- Maxicode
Human Readable Bar Code Characters
- Place above or below bar codes, or turn off
- Independent horizontal and vertical positioning
- Customizable character template
- Independently suppress or display characters from different sub-fields
- Option to display start/stop characters
Text
- Built-in printer fonts
- Windows TrueType fonts
- Adobe Type 1 fonts
- PostScript fonts (on PostScript printers)
- White-on-black text printing
- Text resizable with mouse or keyboard values
- Stretch text horizontally and/or vertically
- Automatic paragraph text wrapping
- Align text left, right, center, or justified
Graphics
- Import graphics in BMP, DCX, DIB, DXF, EPS, IMG, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG
- Resize, rotate and stretch graphics
- Import variable graphics from databases
- Export bar codes and labels for use in other programs
- Draw lines and boxes
General Data Capabilities
- Visual Basic scripting for custom data processing
- User-designable forms for keyboard data entry
- User-definable min and max field lengths
- Customizable data entry filters and error checking
- Automatic print job status reports and errors logs
- Object-oriented concatenation of multiple sub-fields
- Unlimited prefix and suffix lengths
- Easy entry of special and “unprintable” characters
- Shareable data fields
Internal Data Sources
- "Permanent” keyboard data
- "Prompt” for keyboard data at print time
- User-definable custom print-time prompts
- Automatic time and date values with offset
Serialization
- Increment or decrement by any interval
- Separate rollover/rollunder and reset values
- Preserve or expand field length when rolling over
- Numeric, alphabetic and custom base serialization
- Keep or discard changed values
External Data Sources
- ASCII text files (comma, quote-and-comma, or tab delimited)
- Import variable graphics from databases
- Microsoft ODBC support, including compatibility with drivers for: Access, Allbase, AS/400, Btrieve, Clipper,
dBase, DB2, Excel, FoxPro, Ingres, Informix, Interbase, Lotus 1-2-3, Oracle, Paradox, Progress, Quattro, SQL
Server, Sybase, XDB, and moreData Reporting
- Entire file
- Individual record
- Query by example
- Preview query results
- Record range
- Search for record
- SQL select statement
Print-Time Copy Control
- Number of identical and/or serialized copies selectable from keyboard and/or read from file
- Where supported, copies and serialization controlled by printer for increased throughput
Execution From Within Other Programs
- Preloadable into “background.”
- Versatile command-line interface
- Dynamically changeable label format and data source
- Accepts data reporting directives
On-Line Help
- Context-sensitive help
- Hypertexted version of User's Manual located in help system
- Single on-screen “help-line” for quick reference
[Please note that items in red are only available in the 32-bit version of the product.)
The 16-bit version works with Windows 3.1x and Windows 95. The 32-bit version works with Windows 95/98/2000 and NT
4.0 and higher.
