It's now easier than ever to design powerful, user-friendly data entry forms when it is desirable to prompt users for certain data at print-time.

• New Controls: Many more data entry objects, including radio buttons, check boxes, weighing scales, and pictures.
• Drag and Drop: Create controls and link them to label data sources with simple mouse motions.
• More Versatile: Now, optionally design forms without designing your labels first.
• Automatic Text: Most form controls are now automatically created with text objects right next to them, which saves you that extra step.
• Pop-Up Tips: Optionally pop up helpful hints when your users hover their cursor over selected form controls. 

Special part designations for "Multiuser" (3-user through 25-user) BarTender Professional "editions" have been discontinued. Please click here for more details, including alternative options for supporting multiple users.

The discount available for users to update from versions 7.70 through 7.75 (all versions 7.7x) to the latest version of BarTender will expire on August 31, 2010. (Version 7.75 stopped shipping in 2007.) As of September 1st, 2010, only users of 8.0 or higher will be eligible for discounts when updating. Please contact Seagull Scientific for details.

Easy Upgrade Procedures
Please visit our How to Upgrade web page to learn how users can be running the latest version of BarTender in as few as ten minutes.

Drivers by Seagull version 7.1.9 adds a variety of new features, including support for many additional printers from Argox, Birch, Datamax-O'Neil, Graphic Products, InfoPrint, OPAL, SATO, TSC, Valentin and Zebra.

For extensive details, please see:

Recent Printer Driver Enhancements

You can also:

Download Printer Drivers for Free

"On-the-Fly" Object Automation

Programmatically change the position, size, color, and visibility of label objects right in the middle of a print job. For example, a text object for "Shipping Method" can automatically print in red when the value read from your database is "Over Night."

Human Readable Support for 2D Bar Codes

Automatic display of the human readable version of 2D bar code data is now supported.

More Powerful Integration

Version 9.3 expands upon BarTender's industry-leading features for connecting to peripherals and integrating with other software.

• Serial Port Triggers: The Commander middleware application now adds integration support for a wide variety of serial devices, including weighing scales.
• Bidirectional WebSphere Printing: Commander's IBM WebSphere support has been improved. It now supports HTTP posting, which allows for bidirectional print communications.
• Commander Variables: Now store values into a single location and reference them from multiple Commander commands.

Font Toolbar Now Displays
Sample of Font

Font names in the Font toolbar are now displayed using the appropriate font.

For more extensive details on all of the new features, please see the What's New in BarTender 9.3 white paper.

BarTender is available in four editions that address a wide range of features and user requirements. This general overview is followed by a more detailed Features and Editions Comparison Chart.

Printer Licensing: Both "Automation" editions allow unlimited network users. Licensing is based on the maximum number of printers used by BarTender on the network.

PC Licensing: The Professional and Basic editions are licensed based on the number of PCs used.

BarTender is available in international Editions that support on-demand switching of the displayed user-interface language between the following:

Linear Bar Codes:

Two Dimensional Bar Codes:

The Enterprise Automation and Automation editions support the EPC Gen2, EPC Class 1, ISO 18000-6b, ISO 15693, Tag-It, I-CODE, TagSys, My-d, and Picotag tag types. All EPC data formats are supported, including DoD, Wal-Mart, SGTIN, SSCC, GIAI, GID, GRAI, and SGLN, among others.

BarTender supports any printer with a Windows driver. In addition to virtually all laser, ink-jet and dot-matrix printers, this includes the following, for which Seagull has developed its own enhanced Windows printer drivers: