Fancier Invoice

Posted by George W. Barrowcliff on April 7, 2007, 11:35 am

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Is there a way to fancy up the builtin invoice so it looks a little more
professional when printed? If it were to print just like it looks on the
screen it would look OK. With the shaded bars etc. Is there a way to do
this?
TIA, GWB

Posted by Gary E on April 7, 2007, 3:37 pm

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What version of QuickBooks do you have? Almost all of them have a layout
designer and can make some modifications. Have you even looked into that
aspect?

Gary

> Is there a way to fancy up the builtin invoice so it looks a little more

> professional when printed? If it were to print just like it looks on the

> screen it would look OK. With the shaded bars etc. Is there a way to do

> this?

> TIA, GWB

Posted by HeyBub on April 7, 2007, 6:12 pm

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George W. Barrowcliff wrote:

> Is there a way to fancy up the builtin invoice so it looks a little

> more professional when printed? If it were to print just like it

> looks on the screen it would look OK. With the shaded bars etc. Is

> there a way to do this?

Sure. We pre-print the invoice form using a color (ink-jet) printer.
Included in this pre-printed form are company name, etc., logo, instructions
for paying by credit card, and other things.

Then we tell QB to use a pre-printed form (without printing company name,
etc.). Works swell with the following caveat:

Be careful about pre-printing a form on a laser then printing the actual
invoice on a laser. The fusing heat of the second pass may smudge/smear the
printing from the first pass.

Posted by Allan Martin on April 8, 2007, 10:20 am

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> George W. Barrowcliff wrote:

>> Is there a way to fancy up the builtin invoice so it looks a little

>> more professional when printed? If it were to print just like it

>> looks on the screen it would look OK. With the shaded bars etc. Is

>> there a way to do this?

> Sure. We pre-print the invoice form using a color (ink-jet) printer.

> Included in this pre-printed form are company name, etc., logo,

> instructions for paying by credit card, and other things.

> Then we tell QB to use a pre-printed form (without printing company name,

> etc.). Works swell with the following caveat:

> Be careful about pre-printing a form on a laser then printing the actual

> invoice on a laser. The fusing heat of the second pass may smudge/smear

> the printing from the first pass.

Better yet if you prefer the look of preprinted forms have them prepared by
a professional printer.

Posted by HeyBub on April 8, 2007, 12:25 pm

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Allan Martin wrote:

>> Sure. We pre-print the invoice form using a color (ink-jet) printer.

>> Included in this pre-printed form are company name, etc., logo,

>> instructions for paying by credit card, and other things.

>> Then we tell QB to use a pre-printed form (without printing company

>> name, etc.). Works swell with the following caveat:

>> Be careful about pre-printing a form on a laser then printing the

>> actual invoice on a laser. The fusing heat of the second pass may

>> smudge/smear the printing from the first pass.

> Better yet if you prefer the look of preprinted forms have them

> prepared by a professional printer.

Tried that once - for our old accounting system where the bookkeeper wanted
four copies of each invoice. Had them printed on four different colors of
paper.

As it turned out, the "professional" printer ran them through his new Xerox
Docuprinter (a glorified Xerox machine). Then, when the forms went through
our laser printer, the printer's fuser melted the docuprinter's toner!

Such a mess, you couldn't imagine.

The "professional" printer would not take back 15,000 pre-printed forms or
do them over on a printing press. That was twelve years ago; we're still
using scratch-pads made from three cases of colored paper.

For some of us, doing it right is better than doing it "professionally."