Before paying for any printing tool, you deserve the fair comparison. Two of the alternatives are already free on your system - and for some offices they are honestly enough.
Every Tally on Cloud office reaches the same fork: keep fighting with the free printing routes, or pay for a tool built for the job. The answer depends entirely on how many printers you have and how much you print. Here are all four routes, graded fairly - including where the paid one is not worth it.
Cost: already included in TSplus. How it works: TSplus presents its Universal Printer in the session and sends the job to your local machine as a document your PC prints. The catch, shown honestly in the video: it works through a single default printer. With one printer, that is no catch at all. With three or four, staff must keep changing the default printer before jobs, and prints regularly land on the wrong machine. Grade: perfectly good for single-printer offices; daily friction for multi-printer ones.
Cost: free, part of Windows and Remote Desktop. How it works: Easy Print renders through XPS on the client side, avoiding most server drivers; classic redirection goes further and demands the exact printer driver installed on the server. The catch: Easy Print's XPS pipeline mishandles some paper sizes, trays and invoice formats, and classic redirection rebuilds the driver pile and spooler-crash risk described in this series. Also note it needs a proper Remote Desktop Services setup - if your "cloud" is TSplus, this route may not even be in play. Grade: acceptable for simple letters and reports; risky for formatted GST invoice stationery.
Cost: free. How it works: export the invoice or report from Tally as PDF (or print to the TSPrint PDF/Microsoft PDF printer), bring the file to the local PC, and print it like any document. Tally has decent export options, and TSplus can transfer files to the local machine. The catch: it is a manual chain of steps for every single document. For an occasional report it is fine. For a billing counter printing fifty invoices a day, it is unworkable. Grade: the honest zero-cost fallback; not a workflow.
Cost: paid per user licenses after a free trial (see the licensing guide in this series). How it works: virtual printers on the server, rendering on your PC with your own drivers, and every local printer offered inside the print dialog - pick per job, no default switching, no server drivers. The catch: it costs money per user, and it is one more component to keep updated on server and clients. Grade: the strongest option when printing is heavy and printers are many - which is precisely the Tally on Cloud office this series is about.
See the complete TSPrint and Tally on Cloud setup live on screen, step by step, in the full video.
Watch Full VideoFor a single printer, yes, honestly. Its weakness only appears with multiple printers, because it prints through one default printer and staff must keep switching the default. If your office prints everything on one machine, the Universal Printer may be all you ever need.
Easy Print is free and works for plain documents, but its XPS rendering mishandles some paper sizes, trays and formatted invoice layouts, and classic redirection needs exact printer drivers on the server - the spooler crash risk. For formatted GST invoices printed all day, those quirks become daily problems.
When several staff print all day to several different printers - invoices to the billing printer, reports to the laser, labels elsewhere. There, the per-print printer choice and the driverless server remove daily friction that the free routes cannot. Run the free trial with your real workload to confirm it before paying.