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Seagull Scientific Launches New
RFID Enterprise Edition
In September, Seagull Scientific released an entirely new edition of BarTender
named "RFID Enterprise." The new edition has all the same label design,
printing and automation features as Enterprise Edition while adding many new
tools to simplify RFID "Smart Label" design and printing. The RFID Enterprise
Edition of BarTender becomes the new highest-end offering in Seagull
Scientific's line of label design and printing software. The new RFID features
work with Drivers by Seagull version 7.0 (or higher). These were also released
in September.
Making the Design of "Smart Labels" as Easy as Possible
Seagull Scientific continues its tradition of flexibility and ease of use with
the RFID label design and encoding features in BarTender’s RFID Enterprise
Edition. With simple mouse motions, you can "drag and drop" RFID objects onto
label designs as easily as you can create bar codes and other label objects.
Seagull makes RFID data formatting easy too, providing support for the latest
tag types and EPC data formats. Support is provided for nearly every
RFID-capable printer on the market. For more details, see below.
Because the data in an RFID object is intended for "invisible" tag encoding via
radio rather than for printing, all RFID objects are displayed on screen in the
empty design space next to the label.
New Features in RFID Enterprise Edition
The RFID Enterprise edition of BarTender provides:
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RFID Object
– Provides all the controls needed to format RFID data.
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Shared RFID Data
– The data in an RFID object can easily be shared with text and bar code
objects located on the label, which of course do print. This allows scanning
using both RFID and bar code hardware, providing redundancy in the event of a
non-functional RFID tag.
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Standard RFID Data Formats
– Numerous standard RFID data formats have been saved as BarTender components
so users may begin RFID encoding almost immediately. Custom RFID data format
designs can be quickly saved as RFID components for future use on other label
designs.
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RFID Tag Images –
 Seeing the tag on screen
makes it easy to avoid design conflicts such as positioning a sensitive bar
code over the RFID chip, a mistake that can lower print quality. Using Page
Setup, you can turn the display of the RFID tag image on or off. You can
specify standard RFID tag bitmaps, included with BarTender, or add your own
custom images.
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RFID label stocks – BarTender gives users a head start on
their label designs with its large, built-in database of label stock
information from a wide selection of label manufacturers and converters. RFID
Enterprise adds a variety of commonly-available RFID label stocks with the RFID
tags shown in the correct locations.
Future-Proofing your Investment
Smart label technology is new and developing rapidly. As new RFID standards and
hardware become available, new capabilities will gradually be added to the RFID
Enterprise Edition. Fortunately, BarTender is designed to prevent users from
having to frequently purchase expensive upgrades. Much important BarTender
functionality is provided by new printer drivers and component modules (such as
tag and data formats) that are often upgradeable by free download. This makes
it less likely that you will need to purchase upgrades of the full software
package in order to comply with minor changes to available RFID tags and
standards.
For more information on the RFID Enterprise Edition, please visit the following
pages:
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