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Are you using the right tools for your barcoding needs?

ericjgough • Jun 21, 2016

Not having the right tools could be holding back your company - this includes software!

barcoding software

Not having the right software to create barcode labels couldseverely decrease productivity effecting your company's bottom line. Luckily, there is barcoding software that can meet the demands of barcoding today.

BarTender barcode software , by Seagull Scientific, is the world’s leading design and printer software for labels , barcodes , cards and RFID tags. It is designed to work with most on-demand printing or marking applications, such as label printing, print and apply, direct marking, encoding smart cards, and signage.

It is touted as being extremely easy to use with its seamless integration with ERP systems, extensive library of compliance labels and ready-to print labels , and fonts and symbols, supports double-sided card printing, advanced drawing functions and custom serialization, web-browser printing, Smart wizards, software integration, and RFID support.

bartender software

There are 4 different versions or editions of the software currently available to choose from each with varying degrees of options and features to best suit your particular needs:

· Basic Edition

· Professional Edition

· Automation Edition

· Enterprise Automation Edition


With its high degree of control and regulatory compliance capabilities, security encryption features, flexible templates and customized serialization capabilities, plus global tracking and tracing features to name a few, no wonder BarTender software is chosen worldwide by the following industries as an integral component of their labeling systems:

·chemical manufacturers

·distributors and importers

·food producers, packers and manufacturers

·hospitals and healthcare facilities

·pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers

·logistics, warehousing and supply chain providers


Specifically, BarTender software meets the demands of each of these heavily regulated industries, such as:


Chemical Industry:

·Enterprise Automation edition – provides ability to lock down a part of a template or allow custom role-based modification permissions and label format encryption

·Intelligent Templates - provides ability for wide variety of label design formats to meet all major chemical labeling systems including GHS, CLP, DOT, ADR, NFPA

·Each edition supports every modern writing system allowing for global compliance and font-based GHS characters and red-bordered pictograms


Food Industry:

·Intelligent Templates provide sample compliance labels meet global produce traceability mandates, such as EU Food information to Consumers allergen labeling requirements as well as global nutrition labeling rules, and support for the languages of the EU countries

·Enterprise Automation and Automation editions include audit trail capture features provide easy and quick information for recalls or site inspections, and meets traceability and regulatory compliance with EU General Food Law, the PRC Food Safety Law and the US FSMA

·All editions include over 400 preformatted barcode components based on 59 different symbologies and 12 additional barcode standards.

·All editions accept weight data from scales including Mettler-Toledo, Fairbanks, Ohaus, Rice Lake, Dibal and Janner Waagen

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Medical/Pharmaceutical Industry:

· BarTender software creates and automates labeling , barcoding , RFID encoding and plastic card printing for information management throughout the medical system including pharmaceutical inventory control, hospital pharmacy dispensing, drug repacking, asset management, ISBT 128 labeling for storage and ID of blood and other tissues, pathology and specimen tracking, patient ID and record keeping, access control and staff ID, and UDI regulatory compliance labeling of medical devices and FDA 21 CFR Part 11 validation

·Enterprise Automation and Automation editions functionally allows for the sharing of data from any location – bedside, desktop, mobile, card or RFID

·Each edition includes over 95 different healthcare symbologies including GS1, HIBCC, Codabar, ISBT and Pharmacodes

·Intelligent Templates provide extensive flexibility to modify designs, formats and processes when required to meet ever-changing interoperability standards and requirements and HL7-based UDID communication


To add or renew additional license for your BarTender software and to learn more about your options for all your printer, labeling and barcode printing and scanning needs, call us at (800) 643-2664 and immediately talk to one of our friendly representatives; or chat us up on Facebook , Twitter , Google+ and LinkedIn !

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