BarTender® 2021 edition comparison

General Starter Professional
Streamlined installation Easy installation for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of BarTender® • •
Ease of use Intuitive, easy-to-use user interface, translated to more than 20 languages • •
Quick start A collection of configurable, industry-focused, ready-to-use BarTender documents • •
Comprehensive help system A complete how-to library, accessible both through BarTender and on the web • •
Intelligent Templates™ Design and automation tools that leverage data to reduce the number of label files   •
Included printers BarTender is licensed by printer — contact your authorized software vendor to obtain pricing Up to 3 printers 1+ printers
Unlimited users Enable multiple users to print labels from any networked PC • •
Support Starter Professional
Standard Maintenance and Support Upgrade to the latest BarTender version free, and get live technical support by phone and chat during business hours with a guaranteed 24hr response time. Access to online resources, plus technical support by email Includes 1 year Includes 1 year
Printer drivers and monitoring Starter Professional
Drivers by Seagull™ More than 6,500 printers and output devices supported to enable high-performance printing • •
Print optimizations Improve print speed by taking full advantage of printer-based features such as serialization, barcodes, real-time clock, static data and graphic caching • •
Status monitoring Reports information back to Windows regarding printer/print job status and error conditions • •
Printer configuration and diagnostics Perform printer management functions in BarTender, bypassing the printer front panel • •
Other printer drivers Print to any printer that has a Windows-based driver • •
Email alerts Automatically notify IT managers or other operational team members if labeling problems occur • •
Template design Starter Professional
Easy WYSIWYG template design Design tools make it easy to create and print professional labels and documents • •
New Document Wizard An easy-to-follow wizard that ensures proper document settings for quality and printing performance • •
Fonts Versatile support for OpenType, TrueType and native printer-based fonts • •
Text formatting Familiar, Word-like tools for you to easily create and format text • •
Text transforms Add flair to your text objects with a variety of effects, such as fading, inflating, slanting, and more • •
Shapes and lines Choose from over 50 shapes and 100 line style combinations • •
Text wrapping Create dynamic text that wraps inside and around shapes, objects, document borders and more • •
Unmatched barcode support Easily create greater than 100 linear and 2D symbologies and standards • •
Barcode human readable Highly configurable human readable text and character formatting options • •
Graphics and images Import more than 70 graphic formats, including AI, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIF, EPS and GIF • •
Symbols Choose from a wide variety of included symbols and industry-based symbol fonts • •
Tables and grids Create tables and grids to organize text, barcodes, images and other objects • •
White-on-black printing Switch objects from black-on-white to white-on-black printing with a single click • •
Front and back template design Create two-sided “duplex” printing with separate designs for the front and back of your template • •
GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard Build barcodes in seconds using the latest GS1 compliance standards • •
Full color support Design commercial quality labels using PANTONE and data-sourced colors   •
Intelligent Templates™ Starter Professional
Layers Template objects may be stacked, hidden and reordered when created on uniquely identifiable layers   •
Conditional printing Create data-driven automation rules that specify when different objects, layers or templates in your document will visibly print or become hidden   •
Template selector Conditionally print one specific template when multiple templates are available in a document   •
Data sourcing and databases Starter Professional
Date and time Dynamically source dates and times from Windows or clock-enabled printers • •
Data validation and processing Specify data validation rules and automatically correct data or issue warnings • •
Concatenate data Create text and barcode objects that combine information from multiple data sources • •
Basic database connectivity Connect to Excel or a RFC 4180 standard CSV file to import variable data into your template • •
Simple serialization Increase or decrease your serial string data by increments of one (1) • •
Enhanced database connectivity Connect document designs to over 20 data sources such as SAP, Oracle, MS SQL, Azure SQL, XML, Excel, text files and more to print dynamically   •
Advanced serialization Create serial numbers that support alphanumeric, hexadecimal, and custom sequencing patterns   •
Embedded database tables Create your own database tables that travel with your BarTender document designs   •
Database filters Print select database records using convenient query and filter options   •
Database sourced tables Easily create tables using data from a database or external file   •
Dynamic data preview See how your document handles real dynamic data during the design process   •
Dynamic graphics and images Automatically source images for printing based on selected database records or queries   •
Create a database Build your own database from scratch using intuitive tools included with BarTender   •
Write back to databases Write back to SQL-based databases to keep track of printed records, serial numbers and much more   •
Data-entry forms Starter Professional
Database record selection Select or query the correct database records at print time using helpful form controls   •
Powerful form controls Make data input and selection easy by leveraging over 15 highly configurable form controls   •
Keyboard and mouse input Use keyboard and mouse commands to select or enter data into forms at print time   •
Scanner input Use a barcode scanner to input information to data-entry forms at print time   •
Image capture Capture images at print time for ID cards or event badge printing   •
Data validation Reduce user input errors by introducing data validation and error checking   •
Printing, encoding and exporting Starter Professional
Print productivity Print labels and documents to any Windows-based printer • •
On-demand printing Print labels and documents on-demand • •
Batch printing Batch together dynamic print jobs that can use one or more BarTender templates • •
Print preview Review your dynamic print jobs before printing • •
RFID, smart card and magnetic stripe encoding Encode RFID tags, smartcards and magnetic strip cards as easily as adding barcodes to your template design   •
Native PDF generation Generate PDFs without installing third-party PDF drivers   •

 

BarTender Release 11.2 R1 and later versions

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