Executive Summary

The Bellevue Manufacturing Company specializes in manufacturing automobile parts, such as bumpers, luggage carriers, gasoline gauges and windshield wipers. Over time they have expanded into manufacturing new and innovative products while opening new facilities across North America. Delivering their products hinges on the company flawlessly executing its manufacturing as well as its shipping, receiving, and inventory control operations.

The Business Challenge

Bellevue Manufacturing was opening new facilities and needed a barcode software that could take advantage of a centralized template storage with revision control, as well as integrate with their existing ERP system. Lastly, because of their multiple locations, they wanted a software that could be licensed per printer and still communicate over IP. Their operations team is heavily dependent on the ability to design and print various label designs and place the barcode labels on the correct items.

Bellevue Manufacturing also required a reliable, compact and light industrial barcode printer that made it easy for the user to replace printheads and platen rollers. Due to the various label sizes, they also needed something that supported broad media compatibility. Having the right barcode printer and software combination was integral in increasing productivity and cutting down on wasted time while streamlining their warehouse management process.

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Seagull Scientific’s BarTender software is the industry leading label deign application due to how easy it is to use and it’s ever evolving feature set. As customer requirements change, BarTender is constantly improving to fulfill these needs.

The most recent update to BarTender 2016 includes these new additions and improvements:

• New database support for Firebird, MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Ability to add metadata to BarTender documents, viewable in both BarTender and Windows Explorer
• New “duplicate” options allow easy copy/pasting of selected objects
• New scaling options allow easy bulk modification of selected objects
• Better print performance when using Rich Text objects — up to 20x faster rendering
• Support for selecting the encoding for IDoc files
• User interface language can now be set per user
• More options added for label and image export, such as quick export and the ability to set default export options
• New Integration Builder advancements, including new actions, new cloud storage support for Amazon S3 and Microsoft OneDrive, as well as the ability to add attachments using the Send Email action
• Medical device compliance tools: HIBC 2D barcode and UDI sample label

You can download R3 immediately from www.DownloadBarTender.com

NiceLabel has released a groundbreaking new software platform “NiceLabel 2017” and introduced a completely new product line that extends from label designers to enterprise label management solutions. The new software has capabilities that allow businesses to achieve maximum print productivity.

It’s with 25 years of industry experience and several years of development that NiceLabel introduces its next generation future-proof technology platform that is better by design and provides unique business benefits that embody the principle Do more. Faster. With less.

NiceLabel now offers 3 core product line to allow scalability for any business

• NiceLabel Design and Print
• NiceLabel Design and Controlled Print
• NiceLabel LMS: Managed Design and Controlled Print

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The industry leading label design software, BarTender, is available in several version to meet the needs of your business. From a single desktop license to powering your whole enterprise, there’s a BarTender version to fit the bill.

Seagull Scientific’s BarTender design software has been the leading application to create any kind of barcode or RFID label and ID cards for customers due to it’s comprehensive feature set and ease of use. One of the key benefits of BarTender is the various available editions it comes in.

BarTender’s four editions enable you to easily upgrade your system as your business grows, without the extra cost and complexity of buying add-on products.

Basic Edition
Designed for individuals and small departments, the Basic Edition lets you start designing and printing barcode labels and cards in just minutes thanks to its intuitive design tools and helpful wizards.

• Design and print labels, cards, mag stripe cards and more
• Optimize print speed to any printer or marking device
• Design data-entry forms that provide data validation and accept print-time input from the keyboard or a barcode scanner
• Licensed per PC

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From WIP (work in progress) to the food and pharmaceutical industries, tracking items with unique serialized barcode labels is necessary to accurately and easily locate products in cases of a recall, customer alerts, expiration management, and counterfeit prevention. Proper serialization allows any business to know exactly where a problem starts and ends since each item has a unique, non-repeated barcode to identify it.

One of the many advantages of Seagull Scientific’s BarTender label software is fully integrated serialization capabilities. BarTender has multiple types of serialization options and once you have a data source configured, the value will automatically increment or decrement with every printed label.

For step-by-step guidance in how to setup serialization in BarTender download this convenient white paper

The readers of Business Solutions magazine have honored Seagull Scientific, manufacturer of BarTender software, for the eighth straight year as a “Best Channel Vendor”—the only labeling software company to be recognized so many years in a row. With more than 2,700 readers voting, the magazine’s reseller subscribers again cited Product Features and Product Reliability as our top two areas of strength in the category of Labeling Software.

“We are grateful that our channel partners have publicly supported Seagull longer than any other labeling software company,” said Harold Boe, President of Seagull Scientific. “In our 30th year in business, we launched a major new version of our BarTender software and introduced fresh new branding and a new website, but this award demonstrating the continuing strong relationship with our valued channel partners is really the icing on the cake. We look forward to deepening our relationship in 2016.”

Business Solutions conducts its annual survey in partnership with Penn State University, and does not consider vendor advertising in the magazine as a factor in the results. The full results and methodology were published in the January 2016 issue.

Looking for a barcode label design solution with all the right tools to get the job done? Look no further than Teklynx’s new LABEL MATRIX 2015, LABELVIEW 2015, CODESOFT 2015, and LABEL ARCHIVE 2015 with upgraded features and increased functionality.

Here is a sneak peek of the enhancements to each product:

• LABEL MATRIX 2015: Sometimes addresses have extra lines, sometimes they don’t. Now, the added address field combination expression will automatically exclude blank rows to allow users to easily handle variable address data that may not include suite number, apartment number, or building number
•  LABELVIEW 2015: Increase flexibility and minimize the number of label designs by utilizing Variable Pick Lists when referencing a database
• CODESOFT 2015: Manufacturers often need to print labels with variable weights collected from a scale, but the end user doesn’t know the exact quantity of items at the start of the print job. With the improved PortWatch feature, end users can now print labels for an unknown quantity of weighed items
• LABEL ARCHIVE 2015: Optimized reporting tool allows easy access to data around what the system has printed. One-click reports based on users or dates

TEKLYNX 2015 products provide you with the flexibility and efficiency needed when designing and printing labels. Available in subscription or traditional licenses, TEKLYNX’ label design and enterprise solutions are designed to grow with you as your labeling complexities increase.

The availability of Label Gallery software has been discontinued through SATO. As a benefit to their customers SATO will offer special upgrade options for those who purchased Label Gallery through SATO America or any of its reseller partner community.

Special Upgrade Offer for Existing Label Gallery Customers

All users who bought a Label Gallery license through SATO America or a SATO America Reseller Partner after July 1, 2014 and before February 2, 2015 are entitled to free NiceLabel upgrade that’s equivalent of the SATO Label Gallery edition. This offer is valid until September 1, 2015.

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The readers of Business Solutions magazine have honored Seagull Scientific for the seventh straight year as a “Best Channel Vendor” in the category of Labeling Software. With nearly 3,000 readers voting, Seagull’s resellers cited Product Features and Product Reliability as our top two areas of strength. As the leader in barcode label design software, their Bartender software is available is several versions to best meet the needs of any sized business from single locations to complete enterprises.

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