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The Fastest,
Easiest Way to
Design Professional Quality Labels
Brochure
Specs
& Feature Summary
History
of Features
Controlling
Bar Tender From Other Programs
Tutorial:
Design A Label in 5 Minutes
This page discusses some of
the most notable features and capabilities of the Bar Tender.
It includes screen shots, diagrams, charts and explanatory
text. You can also view this complete list of all
features
and Technical
Specifications.
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Easy to Learn,
Easy to
Use | |
With the Bar Tender for
Windows, a few quick mouse motions are all it takes to combine bar
codes, text and graphics into sharp looking, professional quality
labels. And moving and resizing objects on your labels is as easy as
1, 2, 3.
1) Simply click on a label object to select it.
2)
Drag it to a new position with a quick, easy mouse
movement.
3) Stretch objects just as easily.
And customizing is easy. Carefully organized menus and "pop-up"
dialogs display even the most advanced options in plain,
easy-to-understand words. And, with the industry's most powerful
Undo command, even beginners never have to worry about mistakes. And
advanced users still have all the power they'll ever need. (For more
details on designing labels, view our sample design
session.)
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Exceptional
Design
Flexibility | |
The Bar Tender gives
you total control over your label's appearance. Specify any size and
quantity of bar codes and any size and style of text on any size
label (or page). Choose from nearly twenty bar code languages,
including all of the major symbologies, as well as two-dimensional
and postal bar codes. It takes an entire separate
page to
cover all our options for reading in data from
external sources.
Sample "Tabbed" Dialog
(click on image to
see up close)
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Latest Windows
Technology | |
In addition to the
16-bit version, usable on all major versions of Windows, the Bar
Tender is also available in a 32-bit version. Especially designed to
take advantage of the increased power and flexibility of Windows 95,
98 and NT, it makes label design easier than ever.
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"Tool
tips" offer quick
hints.* | | |
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Each of
the three tool bars in the 32-bit version can be
moved
away from its normal screen-edge position
and reshaped as desired.* | | |
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MDI
(Multiple Document Interface) lets
you
manipulate and print multiple label
designs.*
(click
on this small graphic to see up
close) | | |
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Windows
Software Comparison
Chart | |
Click on this chart to
see benefits of the Bar Tender's true Windows design.
The Bar Tender doesn't
just "preview" or approximate how your labels will look. Bar codes
and different text sizes are shown with extraordinary precision. By
accurately viewing your label images before you print them out, you
finish your design work faster.
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Designer
Typefaces, Even On Thermal
Printers | |
Thermal printer users
are no longer limited to just a few built-in, generic typefaces.
Seagull's printer drivers let you output the same rich variety of
Windows-based TrueType and Adobe fonts previously available only on
laser printers. All fonts scale smoothly to any size, without the
"blockiness" seen with some enlarged thermal printer fonts.
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Import and
Export Most Graphic
Formats | |
It's easy to add
company logos and pictures of products. The Bar Tender supports all
major graphic formats, including BMP, DCX, DIB, DXF, EPS, IMG, JPG,
PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG. You can also export bar codes for use
in other software packages.
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Remarkable
Printer
Support | |
In addition to the
hundreds of laser, ink-jet and dot-matrix printers already supported
by Windows, we've created our own true Windows
drivers
for numerous industrial quality label
printers.
And our drivers can be used by all your Windows programs.
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Numerous
Ready-To-Print
Formats | |
Don't like designing
from scratch? Maybe one of our numerous pre-designed label
formats is
all you need. Covering a wide variety of the most common industrial,
military, and business applications, they can be used "as is" or
modified to fit your exact needs.
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Unsurpassed
Data Input
Capabilities | |
The Bar Tender can
accept label data from a truly remarkable variety of sources:
- Keyboard data entered in advance or at print time.
- Automatically serialized data strings.
- Automatic time and date values.
- Four different text file formats.
- ODBC data
sources,
including most databases and
spreadsheets. (Advanced data
reporting capabilities include SQL Select statements and Query by
Example.)
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Working With
Other
Software | |
In designing the Bar
Tender as a true Windows application, special consideration was
given to the ability to work cooperatively with other
applications. This includes extremely versatile data importing
capabilities and three easy ways to control the Bar Tender from
within other programs.
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Getting Better
All The
Time! | |
Although we're excited
about the skyrocketing popularity of the Bar Tender, we're not
resting on our laurels. Our development staff is hard at work
adding new features to the Bar Tender all the time. Here's a
list of some of the Latest Bar Tender
Features.
* Asterisked features listed above only available in our
32-bit version |
