How Amazon label PDFs work
The label PDF from Amazon Seller Central has two pages for every order: first the shipping label, then the tax invoice. The label page holds a 4 × 6 inch label stored as a single image and placed on a much larger page, which is why it prints small and surrounded by white space when you print the page as it is.
This Amazon label cropper takes that label image exactly as Amazon made it and places it on a 4 × 6 inch page. Nothing is redrawn or compressed, so the barcode, the routing codes and the address are identical to Amazon's original and scan the same way.
Why Amazon labels print small
Because the label image only covers part of a large page, printing the PDF directly makes the printer shrink the whole page to fit, label and empty space together. On a 4 × 6 roll that leaves a small label in the middle of the sticker; on A4 it wastes most of the sheet. An Amazon label crop removes the empty space first, so the label fills the sticker at its intended size.
Easy Ship and Self Ship labels
Whether you ship with Easy Ship or Self Ship, download the labels for the day's orders as one PDF and drop it in. The tool pairs every label with the invoice page that follows it, so the label and invoice of an order always stay together, however many orders the file holds.
Amazon label with its invoice
Choose Labels only to print just the 4 × 6 labels, or Label, then its invoice to print each order's invoice on the next sticker, straight after its label. On A4 sheets with four per page, each label is printed beside its invoice.
Sort Amazon orders by SKU
Amazon prints your SKU on the invoice rather than on the label: it appears in the item description, after the ASIN. Keep the invoice pages in the PDF you download and the SKU and quantity of every order are read from them. Group by SKU then puts orders for the same product together, and the picklist page totals the units of each SKU so you can pick stock before packing.
Sheets from other tools
Already have Amazon labels laid out two or four to a page by another tool? Drop the file in as it is. Each label image on the sheet is found and placed on its own 4 × 6 page.
Printing Amazon labels on a thermal printer
- Choose your thermal printer and a 4 × 6 in (100 × 150 mm) paper size.
- Set the scale to 100% or "Actual size". "Fit to page" adds margins and shrinks the label.
- Set the margins to none, then print a single label to check it lines up with the sticker.
Without a thermal printer, choose A4, 4 per page and print on A4 sticker sheets with any inkjet or laser printer. Your customers' details never leave your device: the PDF is cropped in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Thermal printer or A4 sheets?
A thermal printer needs no ink and prints a label in a second or two, which matters once you ship more than a handful of Amazon orders a day. A4 sticker sheets cost nothing to start with, since any office printer works, but you cut the labels apart by hand. Many sellers start on A4 and move to a thermal printer as orders grow; the cropper supports both, so you only change one option.
Common problems
No SKU in the picklist: the invoice pages were left out of the PDF, and Amazon prints the SKU only there. Download the labels together with their invoices. Label looks blurry: the print scale isn't 100%; Amazon's label image is sharp at its true 4 × 6 size. An order has no label: check that the order's label page is in the downloaded PDF; invoice pages on their own are skipped.