Getting Started with BarTender

BarTender® software enables organizations around the world to improve safety, security, efficiency, and compliance by creating and automating the printing and control of labels, barcodes, RFID tags, plastic cards, and more. BarTender gives you the tools to easily and efficiently design labels and templates; to configure and connect to data sources and business systems; and to launch print commands from any system, operating system (OS), or device.

This book of the BarTender help system walks you through the initial steps to get started, either as a designer who is creating and printing documents or as an administrator who is setting up BarTender in a production environment.

In This Section

Installing BarTender

Learn best practices for installing BarTender on a single computer or on multiple machines within your business.

Getting Started for Designers and Print Operators
As a user, learn how to create a new document and how to perform common tasks that are necessary to design and print a simple label, card, RFID tag, or other item.
Getting Started for Administrators
As an administrator, learn how to configure document and application security, manage general performance options, and set up alerting systems and error message logging.