BarTender vs. GS1

Bartender may well be suited for larger companies who have people with Bartender experience, but it is an unnecessarily complex suite of apps that takes some getting used to. Smaller IT shops looking for something more user-friendly, slightly less expensive, and more streamlined should look for alternatives. Some applications are built specifically to use Bartender template files, and in those cases, you may not have an alternative.

Incentivized

• Can create macros to test ranges of serial numbers
• can be linked to electrical test stations in assembly of electronic modules

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• Resource Intensive - Can use a lot of resources
• Pricey - But you get what you pay for
• Licensing can be quite difficult to understand

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Easy to renew and update the license

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I often have to try to troubleshoot printing issues for other team members, but I have never reached out to a BarTender support network. I’ve always just tinkered within the app to figure it out.

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We do use Zebra label designer, a free product, in circumstances where we don’t need a complicated label, such as no serialization, no connection to a dynamic database, etc. If we were to pull those instances into BarTender, we would need more licenses, which are expensive

Incentivized

• Increased accuracy and consistency
• Improved speed of batch printings
• Customization permitted adapted features for our unique applications saving time and efforts

Incentivized