On-premises
Strengthen security, control, and resilience
The on-premises software of BarTender Labeling offers comprehensive, enterprise-wide control to ensure printing is secure and always on for the ultimate level of confidence.
CREATE
Simplify barcode & RFID label design
Start designing in minutes with simple tools anyone can use. Increase efficiency with dynamic, data-driven label templates that work harder than you.
MANAGE
Streamline workflows and optimize operations
Enforce enterprise-wide control by centralizing label template management, tracking critical activities, managing user access, and maintaining compliance.
Scale to meet any label printing need
Print from local workstations, web browsers, or mobile devices your team use every day. Trigger print runs from simply dropping files into folders or dynamic forms that standardize labeling and increase accuracy.
96% improvement in labeling errors
See how our labeling automation minimizes errors, ensures compliance, and accelerates label printing in as few as two clicks.
Why customers choose On-premises
Why customers choose On-premises
Strengthened control
Maintain tight control over server configuration, user access, and customized integrations for databases and print routing.
Optimized, high-volume printing
Run large scale print jobs with high performance and low latency. Minimize risk of poor internet connection and performance.
Offline printing operations
Operate without an internet connection—whether there’s an outage or your operations don’t have internet access.
Security & compliance assurance
Enforce strict data residency and regulatory frameworks for data access and other highly sensitive label content.
Disaster resilience
Be prepared for the unexpected with license server redundancy and printer failover options to ensure service continuity.
Flexible software upgrades
Upgrade on your own schedule. Roll out new features and updates into production when you’re ready.
What's new
Simplify label printing with Intelligent Forms
Streamline label printing with Intelligent Forms that dynamically print specific label templates based on data – all without opening a file or application. Simply link a form to many templates for fast data entry and build your forms using the Intelligent Form Builder without any coding.
Explore more from BarTender Labeling
Explore more from BarTender Labeling
- Customize label templates to meet your specific industry or application needs with support for 100+ linear and 2D symbologies and standards.
- Encode RFID inlays as easily as adding a barcode to your label template including smart cards and magnetic stripe cards.
- Reduce training time with simple step-by-step template wizards and a comprehensive, built-in BarTender Help system.
- Ensure compliance with support for the latest barcode standards and regulations, including GS1, RFID, UDI, GHS, FDA.
- Access our template library of 400+ pre-built label templates – updated instantly.
- Avoid compliance headaches with pre-built tools, including Wizards, symbologies, labels, tags, and electronic data.
- Print at the source of work from any mobile device, browser, or our production-friendly BarTender Mobile App.
- Optimize print speed using the industry's largest printer driver library for labeling, marking, and coding - 11,000+ supported printer drivers.
- Automatically connect to network and off-network printers with driverless remote printing – no printer driver management needed.
- Create dynamic templates that change label content based on data to eliminate the need for managing hundreds of label templates.
- Streamline label printing with on-demand, data-driven forms that dynamically print specific label templates based on data – all without opening a file or document.
- Build and manage your own database without external databases.
- Automate repetitive labeling processes with 70+ trigger actions to support new and existing business processes.
- Easily connect label templates to 20+ pre-configured databases or file types including Excel Online, Google Sheets, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and more.
- Build custom, flexible integrations using the method that best fits your needs including File Drop, REST API, or no-code builders.
- Create a single source of truth with a centralized location to manage and store label templates and documents.
- Easily track the status of label documents, from start to finish, for faster label design, approval, and publishing.
- Prevent users from overwriting and accessing specific documents with file check-in and checkout and revision control.
- Enable traceability with advanced serialization across network printers.
- Meet industry regulations and standards with complete audit trails and unlimited logging.
- Capture electronic signatures for industry regulations and standards, including FDA 21 CFR Part 11, UDI, MDR, FMD, and FSMA.
- Prevent unauthorized access with role-based security & user permissions.
- Securely share files and documents between teams with document encryption.
- Be prepared for the unexpected with automatic printer failover and backup options to avoid downtime.
On-premises editions
Choose the BarTender edition that’s right for you
Choose the BarTender edition that’s right for you
BarTender On-premises
Starter
Design and print labels in minutes
- Design simple barcode labels with 100+ linear and 2D symbologies and standards
- Print to 11,000+ printers for labeling, marking, and coding
- Ensure compliance with 400+ pre-built templates
- Print to unlimited printers from a single user and PC
BarTender On-premises
Professional
Be more data-driven with pre-configured, dynamic tools
- Create dynamic templates for simplified template management
- Print at the source of work from any mobile device or browser
- Easily connect label templates to 20+ pre-configured databases or file types
- Ensure label accuracy with customizable data entry forms
- Encode RFID tags as easily as barcode labels
BarTender On-premises
Automation
Boost productivity with flexible, automated labeling
- Streamline label printing with on-demand, data-driven forms
- Build flexible integrations using REST APIs, File Drop, or no-code builders
- Automate repetitive processes with 70+ trigger actions
- Integrate with any business system or application (ERP, WMS, MES, etc.)
- Reprint previously printed labels that get lost or damaged
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Enterprise
Streamline teams and enforce accountability
- Create a source of truth with centralized label and document management
- Enable version control by tracking label documents, from start to finish
- Prevent unauthorized print runs with enterprise-level security and permissions
- Manage complete audit trails and logs
- Enable comprehensive traceability
- 99.99% high availability with enhanced reliability
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise |
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Simple label generation
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Local BarTender Designer | ||||||||
| Local & online template library with 400+ pre-built templates | ||||||||
| Simple document wizards offering step-by-step instructions | ||||||||
| Broad barcode support with 100+ linear and 2D symbologies | ||||||||
| 50+ shapes and 100+ line style combinations | ||||||||
| Versatile font support | ||||||||
| Text formatting & transformation | ||||||||
| Graphic and image support for 70+ formats | ||||||||
| Symbols and symbol fonts | ||||||||
| Tables and grids | ||||||||
| White-on-black printing | ||||||||
| Two-sided template printing | ||||||||
| Embedded template revision logging | ||||||||
| Full color support | ||||||||
| Supported in 20+ different languages | ||||||||
| Content suppression | ||||||||
| Intelligent Templates | ||||||||
| Template consolidation | ||||||||
| Data-driven templates to create 1,000s of label variations from a single template | ||||||||
| Template selector | ||||||||
| Template layers | ||||||||
| Auto face detection and cropping | ||||||||
| Scriptable object modifications | ||||||||
| BarTender Designer Online | ||||||||
| Remote label creation collaboration |
Dynamic data and databases
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Dynamically sourced dates and times | ||||||||
| Data validation and processing | ||||||||
| Multi-source data objects | ||||||||
| Basic database connectivity (Excel or CSV files) | ||||||||
| Simple serialization | ||||||||
| Database connection naming | ||||||||
| Print-time database filters | ||||||||
| Database sourced tables | ||||||||
| Dynamic data preview | ||||||||
| Dynamic graphics and image sourcing | ||||||||
| Embedded database tables in templates | ||||||||
| Enhanced database connectivity with 20+ pre-configured data sources | ||||||||
| Advanced serialization including alphanumeric, hexadecimal, and custom sequencing patterns | ||||||||
| Database builder | ||||||||
| SQL database write-back | ||||||||
| Visual Basic (VB) scripting | ||||||||
| Global database fields | ||||||||
| Advanced global database fields | ||||||||
| Phrase Library of standard, multi-lingual text |
Printing, marking, and encoding
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Drivers by Seagull – supporting 11,000+ printer drivers | ||||||||
| Optimized printing | ||||||||
| Printer configuration and diagnostics | ||||||||
| On-demand and batch printing | ||||||||
| Print preview | ||||||||
| Image exporting in 35+ formats | ||||||||
| RFID encoding | ||||||||
| Native PDF generation | ||||||||
| Printer code templates | ||||||||
| Remote, web-based printing | ||||||||
| Driverless remote printing | ||||||||
| Reprint labels and documents | ||||||||
| Printer failover |
Data-driven printing forms
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Data entry forms | ||||||||
| Database record selection | ||||||||
| Powerful form controls to simplify data input and selection | ||||||||
| Scanner data input | ||||||||
| Weighing scale data input | ||||||||
| Image capture | ||||||||
| Form data validation | ||||||||
| Data-driven, web-based printing forms | ||||||||
| No-code, web-based print form builder |
Integrations and automations
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Form-based process automation | ||||||||
| Document-level automations | ||||||||
| Advanced business system integration with any business system or application | ||||||||
| REST API integrations | ||||||||
| File Drop integrations | ||||||||
| Email-based integrations | ||||||||
| TCP/IP socket integrations | ||||||||
| Database monitoring | ||||||||
| Structured data integration | ||||||||
| 70+ integration actions to trigger label printing, database queries, etc. | ||||||||
| .NET SDK | ||||||||
| BarTender REST API | ||||||||
| Print Portal REST API |
Centralized management
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Role-based permission management | ||||||||
| Centralized document storage | ||||||||
| Revision control for documents and files | ||||||||
| Optimized label design workflows | ||||||||
| Workflow Designer | ||||||||
| System audit trail |
Security, monitoring, and alerts
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Status monitoring | ||||||||
| Email notifications & alerts | ||||||||
| Role-based security | ||||||||
| Password protection for documents and printing | ||||||||
| Electronic signatures | ||||||||
| Document encryption | ||||||||
| Backup and resilient licensing server |
Licensing
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Number of users |
Single user |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
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| Workstation licensing | ||||||||
| Printer-based licensing |
Support
| Starter | Professional | Automation | Enterprise | |||||
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| Standard Maintenance and Support |
Includes 1 year |
Includes 1 year |
Includes 1 year |
Includes 1 year |
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| Premium Maintenance and Support - Add-on Option |
