License and Printer Administration

License Server Redundancy

This article applies to BarTender 2021 and higher and the Enterprise Edition. Question  What is License Server Redundancy? Answer This new feature introduced in BarTender 2021 provides the ability to have redundant and backup License Servers. If your main License Server goes down for any reason, ...
Managing Printer Groups and their printers

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. In BarTender 2019 and later, you can manage printer usage and permissions with Printer Groups in the administration console. If you're not familiar with what Printer Groups are or where to find them, please see: What are Printer Groups?   Default...
How to set and manage Printer Group Mapping Rules to automatically sort printers

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. In BarTender 2019 and later, you can add sorting rules called Printer Group Mapping Rules to automatically sort printers into Printer Groups without any manual management needed. You can set any number of rules you desire, sorting printers into p...
What are Printer Groups?

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. What are Printer Groups? A Printer Group is a group of printers that can be assigned printing priority or completely block use of a printer with BarTender. With Printer Groups, you can: Block access to a printer using the Blocked Group Assign us...
Controlling User Access in the Administration Console

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. What is User Access? In BarTender 2019 and later, you can use the Administration Console to select which users and groups have access to certain aspects of the license as well as managing and using the license itself. Note: User Access is not use...
Creating, modifying, and managing Printer Pools

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. In BarTender 2019 and later, you can create Printer Pools to control user access to License Partitions. If you're not familiar with the basics of Printer Pools and where to find them, please see this article: What are Printer Pools? By default, y...
Creating, modifying, and managing printer counts with the License Partition dialog

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. In BarTender 2019 and later, you have the option of segmenting your license. This is done by utilizing License Partitions in the Administration Console. If you are not familiar with License Partitions or where to locate them, please see this supp...
How to add Printer Pools and License Partitions to a license

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. In BarTender 2019 and later, you now have the option to segment a license and control access to each segment. This is done by using Printer Pools and License Partitions. If you're not familiar with either, please see these two articles to get you...
What are Printer Pools?

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. What are Printer Pools? Printer Pools work hand in hand with a License Partition and do the heavy lifting for the pair. By default one Printer Pool is created upon installation. Here are some of the features of a Printer Pool Control user permis...
What are License Partitions?

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. What is a License Partition? A License Partition is an allocation or group of printer licenses (sometimes called seats). Here's some basic information about License Partitions: a license has a single partition by default can break up the license...
BarTender Printer Redirection and Failover

This articles applies to BarTender 2019 and later. BarTender printer redirection and failover allows you to redirect print jobs from one printer to another printer if the initial printer is offline, in an error state, or otherwise unavailable. Enabling Printer Failover You can enabl...
Getting version details about your BarTender installation

The BarTender About screen contains many useful details about your specific BarTender installation. You will often be asked to provide some or all of these details when contacting Technical Support.  To open the About dialog: Open BarTender Designer Click the Help Menu Choose the About option Y...