BarTender 9.3 Service Release Adds Translations, New Features

Updated Brochures and
New White Papers Available

BarTender version 9.3 was released on May 14, 2010, with all new features displaying only in English. Service Release 1 (SR1) of version 9.3 was launched on July 20 and added translations of the new features in all 22 of our supported international languages. In addition to the new translations, SR1 includes new EPC data formats for RFID tags and over 100 additional GS1 bar codes.

New EPC RFID Data Formats
BarTender 9.3 SR1 supports version 1.4 of EPC's Tag Data Standard, which adds 7 new EPC RFID data formats:

• GDTI-96 • GDTI-113 • GIAI-202 • GRAI-170 • GSRN-96 • SGLN-195 • SGTIN-198

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The above formats can be used with any EPC Gen2 or ISO 18000-6 tag. To view and use the new formats in BarTender, select the Standard RFID pane of the BarTender Toolbox.

New GS1 Bar Codes
The SR1 service release adds over 100 additional GS1 bar code formats. To access them, please select BarTender's Standard Bar Codes Toolbox pane and open the new, dedicated GS1 folder.

Updated Marketing Material

Updated Brochures
As of August 4, all 22 translated BarTender brochures have been fully updated to version 9.3 (please see our brochures page). As always, printed copies of these brochures are available upon request to your Seagull Scientific sales representative.

Exciting New White Papers!
In support of the version 9.3 release, Seagull has authored several new white papers covering a wide variety of technical topics:

•	Weighing Scale Support - For details on new support for weighing scales (added in version 9.3), please see the Weighing Scales white paper.
•	GHS Labeling - BarTender 9.3 includes a new sample label you can use to assist with printing labels that comply with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). For information on GHS labeling, please see the new GHS Labeling white paper. (Tech Note: The sample GHS label uses BarTender's new document-level VB script support. Please see immediately below for details.)
•	Dynamic Modification of Label Objects - To learn how to use BarTender's document-level scripts to change text, bar code, and other objects in the middle of print jobs, please see the new white paper titled "Dynamically Changing Objects at Print Time using VB Script."
•	What's New in BarTender 9.3 - For a detailed, in-depth discussion of all new features for version 9.3, please see the dedicated BarTender 9.3 white paper.

Reminder: Updates from Versions 7.70 through 7.75
Will Expire August 31

The discount available for users to update from versions 7.70 through 7.75 (that is, from all of versions 7.7x) to the latest version of BarTender will expire on August 31, 2010. (Version 7.75 stopped shipping in 2007.) As of September 1st, 2010, only users of 8.0 or higher will be eligible for discounts when updating. Please contact Seagull Scientific for details.

Easy Upgrade Procedures
Please visit our How to Upgrade web page to learn how users can be running the latest version of BarTender in as few as ten minutes.

More Information about BarTender 9.3

For a review of new features in version 9.3, please click here for the BarTender 9.3 newsletter. For a detailed, in depth discussion, please see the "What's New in BarTender 9.3" white paper.