Raju Electricals sends goods by transport every day. The owner sets Print What to Direct Print original + Transporter + Duplicate Copy. Each bill now prints three copies the moment it is saved: one for the customer, one for the truck, one for the file. At the counter for walk-in customers he uses F6 on the bill, which saves and prints in one key.
Print What and the number of copiesCore software Printing & Invoice Studio
Bills and labels that look like your shop.
Print the bill the way you want it: the right paper, your logo and terms, the right number of copies, a border round the page, and a clean PDF for WhatsApp.
- A bill that looks like your shop
- Copies that come out right
- No more wrong bill on paper
01A bill that looks like your shopLogo, colours, terms, bank details and a UPI QR with the bill amount filled in, made in Invoice Studio without a designer.
02Copies that come out rightOriginal, duplicate and transporter copies in one go; at the POS each thermal copy is cut on its own.
03No more wrong bill on paperPrint.exe now waits for the bill you pressed Print on, and a missing PDF tells you why.
How it works
Up and running in 5 steps.
- Set Print What once in General Settings → Most used
- Pick the default format per entry in Help → Manage Bill Formats
- Make your own design in Help → Design New Format (Studio)
- Save a bill; choose format and copies in the print window
- Press Print, Preview, Whatsapp or Email
A closer look
Printing & Invoice Studio, screen by screen.
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The print window
The print window opens after you save a bill (if your settings say so, see 7.2) or when you press Print on a saved bill. It has three parts.
Full steps in the guidePrinting & Invoice Studio
Print What and the number of copies
Set this once and every sale bill comes out the same way. Open the Settings icon → General Settings → Most used, group Printing:
- Ask to Print after Sale: on = after Save, Speed Plus asks Do you want to Print Bill.
- Print What: pick one of the choices in the table.
- Press Save changes (Alt+S).
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Manage Bill Formats: which design prints for which entry
Help → Manage Bill Formats is one screen for all bill printing. The left side lists the entries: Sale, POS, Purchase, Sale Return, Sale Order, Quotation, Sale Challan, Credit Note and the rest. Click one and the right side shows how it prints.
- Print type. Click one of the four cards above for the selected entry.
- Formats. Press + Add format to pick a design from the library (or + Crystal (.rpt), or Import .html), give it a name…
- On each format card: Set default, Preview, Studio to change an HTML design, Delete, and Auto action (Print, Preview…
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Invoice Studio: design your own bill, with a page border
New in 2026
Help → Design New Format (Studio) opens Invoice Studio. You tick and type on the left; the bill on the right changes as you go. No designer and no code.
- At the top, type a Format name, choose Paper (A4, A5, A6, Thermal 3", Thermal 2"), Portrait or Landscape, and Copies…
- Work through the sections on the left: Paper & Theme (colour, font, font size, page border), Header (title, logo…
- Press Save format. The message tells you to attach it: open Help → Manage Bill Formats, pick the entry, + Add format…
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Thermal receipts at the POS: GST summary and a cut after every copy
New in 2026
When the POS entry is set to print type Thermal (Receipt Printer) in Manage Bill Formats, the Point of Sale prints a text slip made for roll printers. It carries the shop heading and GSTIN, the bill details, the items, the net amount, the payment lines, the amount in words and a GST summary: one line per GST rate with the sale amount…
- Help → Manage Bill Formats → POS → Thermal (Receipt Printer).
- Choose the Printer / COM port, the Receipt style and the Paper width (2 Inch = 58 mm, 3 Inch = 80 mm).
- Set the copies in General Settings → POS print and barcode → No. of Copies to Print (1 to 4).
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Print fields (T-Codes) and the older format tools
A dealer or designer who builds Crystal or HTML formats needs to know which print code carries which data. Help → T-Codes (Print Fields) lists it for every printout, named the way you see it on the bill, with an example.
Full steps in the guideBarcode & labels
Printing Labels from the Barcode Labels Screen
Open Masters → Items and press QRCode / Barcode, or click the Barcode tile on the dashboard. The Barcode Labels screen opens.
- In Select, choose where the items and label count come from (see the table).
- Set From Date and To Date. Narrow the list with Item, Co., Group, Barcode, MRP (Range), Sale Price (Range) or Bill No.
- Press OK. The list shows the first 100 rows; tick Show All for every row.
Worked examples
With real numbers, the way a shop uses it.
Kaur Ladies Garments has two companies on one PC: a GST firm for wholesale and a small retail firm. In the wholesale company the owner sets Sale to HTML Preview with an A4 design as default. In the retail company she sets Sale to Thermal, 3 Inch, Style 1. Each counter prints the right bill without anyone choosing.
Manage Bill Formats: which design prints for…Mehta Departmental wants its A4 bill to look like a printed book. In Studio the owner opens his design, ticks Draw a border around the page, picks Double line and Same as theme colour, and presses Save format. A 3-page bill for a school canteen order now has a double frame on all three pages, with the item heading repeated under the frame on pages 2 and 3.
Invoice Studio: design your own bill, with a…Everything inside
Each topic has its own step-by-step section.
Printing Formats
The print windowPrint What and the number of copiesPaper sizes: A4, A5, A6 and thermal rollsManage Bill Formats: which design prints for which entryInvoice Studio: design your own bill, with a page border NewThermal receipts at the POS: GST summary and a cut after every copy NewPDF, WhatsApp and Email from the print windowPrint.exe: the right bill every time, and "PDF was not created" NewPrint fields (T-Codes) and the older format tools
Barcode Printing
Features in detail
Pick a feature and read its page.
Inventory & items
Barcode Sticker Studio
Lay out your own label: name, price, barcode or QR, any size.
Inventory & itemsCost code on labels
Print your purchase price on the label as a code only you can read.
Billing & salesInvoice Studio
Design your own bill format on the screen.
Billing & salesThermal receipts with GST summary
A neat roll receipt with the tax summary and a cut after every copy.
Inventory & itemsWeighing scale barcodes
Loose items weighed on the scale bill by the barcode it prints.
Inventory & itemsBarcode and QR labels
Put useful product information on the label.
Billing & salesBarcode checkout
Scan the label. Find the right item.
Billing & salesCustom bill formats
Your invoice, in the format your counter needs.
GST & document controlsCustom report layouts
Give the report a useful printed shape.
Videos
Watch Printing & Invoice Studio on the real screen.
Print Item Labels in 5 Steps: Choose Items, Quantity, Template
Barcode Stickers Right After Purchase: A Unique Serial Number for Every Piece
Sale Register: Choose Columns, Search a Party or Item, Export to Excel
Wholesale vs Retail: Choose the Invoice Type and Rate and Tax Come Automatically
4 Ways to Add an Item on the Sale Screen: Name, Part No., % Search and Barcode
SPEED PLUS 9.0 Purchase Price Secret Code on Barcode
Questions
What people ask about Printing & Invoice Studio.
The printer printed the previous bill, or a blank bill. Why?
Print.exe started before the new bill reached it. Version 261030 hands each job to Print.exe with its own number (7.8). Update with Help → Check for Updates and ask your dealer whether your Print.exe is the current one; an old Print.exe ignores the job number. If it still happens, send your dealer the last lines of print.log.
"The PDF was not created (Print.exe did not respond within 60 seconds)". What now?
Read the lines under it (7.8). Most often Print.exe is still running: end it in Task Manager and try again. A missing or read-only PDFs folder is named in the box.
The bill goes to the wrong printer.
Crystal and HTML designs print on the Windows default printer: set the right one as default in Windows. For one print, tick Select Printer in the preview window. A thermal POS slip goes to the printer chosen in Manage Bill Formats → POS → Printer / COM port.
The thermal printer does not cut between copies.
The POS thermal slip cuts after every copy only on a printer with a cutter; many 58 mm printers have none. If the POS prints through a Crystal design, switch on "cut after document" in the printer driver. The regular Sale bill screen sends all copies in one job, so the cut comes at the end.
"The bill was not printed: no HTML bill format is chosen for Sale". What does it mean?
The Sale entry is set to an HTML print type but has no default HTML design, or the design file is missing. Open Help → Manage Bill Formats → Sale and set a default, or switch the print type to Crystal Report.
Sale Print stopped with "Could not find file ... htmlformats\.html" (SP9-A297C1).
Fixed in version 261030; update with Help → Check for Updates. You now get the message above instead, telling you to choose a format.
How do I print three copies of every bill?
General Settings → Most used → Print What → Print original + Transporter + Duplicate Copy, or the Direct Print version to skip the print window.
How do I print 2 copies at the POS?
General Settings → POS print and barcode → No. of Copies to Print = 2. On a thermal printer each copy is cut separately.
The print window does not open after I save.
Ask to Print after Sale is off and Print What is not a Direct Print choice. Switch Ask to Print after Sale on, or press Print on the saved bill.
My thermal slip has no GST summary.
The receipt style is Style 3, the compact one. Choose Style 1, 2 or 4 in Manage Bill Formats → POS.
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