GS1 and BarTender Software

GS1 standards are built into BarTender - simple, straightforward, automated barcoding

GS1 Australia is the leading provider of standards and solutions for over 20 industry sectors. GS1 introduced barcoding to Australia in 1979 and today enable more than 19,000 member companies, of all sizes, to become more efficient by implementing the GS1 system.
BarTender Software Australia is the Associate Alliance Partner of GS1 Australia.

  

Barcode Software: What you need to know 

Regardless of the type of barcode, the basic concept of barcode software is the same:

• Information is mapped to an arrangement of (usually black and white) bars, squares or dots.
• Printed barcodes are scanned to retrieve the encoded information quickly and accurately.
• Barcode labeling increases efficiency and reduces costly errors.

Barcode software is a relatively recent development, yet barcodes are now such a familiar part of everyday life that it is almost difficult to remember a time without them. Today, almost every product you buy, almost every package you receive, has a barcode—whether it’s a familiar one-dimensional (1D) barcode with alternating black and white bars, or a more recent two-dimensional (2D) barcodes such as a QR code.

Barcode labeling has obvious advantages in a business setting: It increases efficiency, reduces costs and errors, and helps meet regulatory requirements. But these benefits are only achieved if the barcode software used to create those barcodes can be trusted to encode the required information quickly and correctly and print it consistently and accurately. It’s not enough to use an online barcode generator. 

Barcode software with unparalleled symbology support

BarTender software offers more than 400 preformatted, ready-to-use barcode components based on 95 barcode symbologies and more than a dozen barcode standards, including:

Linear barcodes 

A linear symbology is a single row of bars and spaces. The elements can vary either by width (such as EAN-8) or by height (such as Royal Mail 4-State).

EAN-8

Royal Mail 4-State

• Codabar
• Code 39 (Full ASCII and Regular)
• Code 93
• Code 128
• EAN-8
• EAN-13 (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons)
• GS1-128
• GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS, all four non-stacked variants)
• Interleaved 2-of-5
• ITF-14
• JAN-8
• JAN-13 (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons)
• MSI Plessey
• RSS (see GS1 DataBar)
• Telepen
• Trioptic
• UPC-A (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons)
• UPC-E (with and without 2 and 5 digit add-ons)

2D, matrix, and stacked symbols 

A 2-D stacked symbology contains multiple rows of bars and spaces. In some 2-D stacked symbologies, separator areas exist between multiple data rows (such as GS1 Databar Expanded Stacked). Other 2-D stacked symbologies contain no separator areas (such as PDF417).

GS1 DataBar Expanded Stacked

PDF-417

A 2-D matrix symbology has a two-dimensional pattern of elements that doesn't necessarily have a row-by-row structure. Typically, the elements are squares or dots rather than bars. In Aztec Code, the data is written in a spiral outward. 

Aztec Code

• Aztec Code
• Data Matrix
• GS1 Composite (13 variants)
• GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS 3 stacked variants)
• GS1 DataMatrix
• GS1 QR
• MaxiCode
• Micro QR Code
• MicroPDF417
• PDF417
• QR Code
• RSS (see GS1 DataBar)
• iQR

Postal and shipping barcodes

• Australia Post
• Canadian Customs
• Japanese Post
• KIX Code
• Royal Mail
• UPS MaxiCode
• USPS Intelligent Mail
• USPS Planet
• USPS Postnet

Barcode standards 

• GS1 Coupons
• GS1 Distribution
• GS1 General Applications
• GS1 Health Care – Non-retail
• GS1 Health Care – Retail
• GS1 Pharmaceutical
• GS1 Retail – General Distribution
• GS1 Retail – Non-general Distribution
• HIBC (Primary and Secondary)
• ISBT
• TLC (39 and MicroPDF417)
• DUN
• UPS Tracking Number
• Design barcodes for almost any other standard using BarTender.

Label standards 

• AIAG
• Caterpillar
• DoD
• GHS
• GM 1724-A
• HIBC
• MIL 129 and 1189B (LOGMARS)
• ODETTE
• Oracle WMS
• Sears
• Wal-Mart
• SAP AII
• SSCC
• TLC
• UPS
• USPS (includes FIM A and FIM C).
• You can also design labels for almost any other standard using BarTender.

Data format standards 

Encode text using almost any data format, including Unicode, ASCII, Western, Japanese, Chinese, or any other character encoding, plus custom formats. Predefined barcode components also support the following standards:

• GTIN-8 (for EAN-8, JAN-8, and UPC-E components)
• GTIN-12 (for UPC-A components)
• GTIN-13 (for EAN-13 and JAN-13 components)
• GTIN-14 (formerly EAN-14 and SCC-14; for GS1 components that use the (01) application identifier, for GS1 DataBar components, and for ITF-14 components)
• SCC-18 (for GS1 barcode components that use the (00) application identifier)