How to crop Amazon shipping labels to 4x6 and print the SKU

A packing-floor guide for Indian Amazon sellers · Updated 15 July 2026

If you sell on Amazon India with Easy Ship, your morning looks something like this: download the label PDF for the day's orders, print it, cut each label out with scissors, then open the invoice again to work out which product goes in which parcel. Do that for eighty orders and you have lost an hour before you have packed a single box.

This guide covers what that PDF actually contains, why the labels come out the wrong size, and how to get a print-ready 4x6 file with the SKU already on the label.

What is actually inside an Amazon label PDF

Open the PDF Amazon gives you and count the pages. If you printed labels for two orders, you have four pages — not two. Amazon alternates them:

Page 1 — the shipping label. AWB barcode, delivery address, the QR block, and the courier routing strip at the bottom. This whole page is one image; there is no text in it you can select or search.
Page 2 — the tax invoice. Sold-by details, billing and shipping address, and an item table with the product description, ASIN, your SKU, quantity and price. This page is real text.
Then the pattern repeats for the next order.

That split explains two things that confuse sellers. First, why printing the PDF straight to a thermal roll wastes half the roll on invoices. Second, why the SKU is never on the label — it only exists on the invoice page.

Why labels print the wrong size

The label page is A4-shaped, but the label content only occupies part of it. Send that page to a 4x6 thermal printer and the printer shrinks the entire A4 page — white margins included — to fit 4x6. The result is a small label in the middle of the roll with a tiny barcode that scanners struggle with.

The fix is to crop away the white space so the label content itself fills the 4x6 area. Then the barcode prints at full size and scans first time.

One warning that costs sellers a lot of rolls: the block of routing codes at the very bottom of the label — the DLIF / MDEA / SBCZ row and the "Sold on: www.amazon.in" line — is part of the label. There is a large blank gap above it, and naive croppers treat that gap as the end of the label and cut the routing codes off. Couriers can reject parcels missing that strip. Whatever tool you use, check that the bottom row survived.

Getting the SKU onto the label

This is the part that actually saves time. The SKU is sitting in the invoice's item table, inside brackets after the ASIN — something like | B0CZXC6KPR ( YAP-SAMSUNGGALAXYA735G-50PICN-YAP40 ). A tool that reads the invoice page's text can pull that out and print it onto the matching label.

Two things make this genuinely useful rather than just neat:

Quantity. If an order is for two pieces and the label says nothing about it, one piece goes in the box and you get a customer complaint. Printing the quantity next to the SKU makes it impossible to miss.

Multi-item orders. When a customer orders two different products together, the invoice has two rows, so the label needs both SKUs listed.

Our Amazon label cropper does this automatically: it reads each invoice page, prints every SKU with its quantity into the blank band inside the label (so the label is not shrunk and nothing is covered), and can sort the whole batch by SKU.

Why sorting by SKU is the real time-saver

Cropping saves paper. Sorting saves your legs. Unsorted, you walk to the shelf, pick one item, pack it, walk back for a different item, and repeat eighty times. Sorted by SKU, every order for the same product is together: pick a stack of one design, pack them all, move on.

The workflow, start to finish

Download labels from Seller Central. Manage Orders → select your orders → print shipping labels. You get the alternating label/invoice PDF.
Open the Amazon label cropper. Drop the PDF in. Multiple PDFs at once are fine.
Choose SKU Id (or SKU + description) and tick Sort by SKU. Leave the invoice unticked if you only want labels; tick it to get invoices as a separate A4 file.
Pick 4x6 for a standard thermal roll, or 4x4 / 3x5 / A4 if that is what you run.
Print one label first. Check the barcode scans and the bottom routing strip is intact, then send the rest.

Everything runs inside your browser, so your customers' names and addresses never get uploaded anywhere — which also means a 100-order file processes instantly instead of waiting on an upload.

Frequently asked questions

What size is an Amazon Easy Ship label?

The label sits on an A4-sized page but the label itself is roughly 4 inches by 6 inches once the surrounding white space and the invoice page are removed. That is why 4x6 is the standard thermal roll size for Amazon sellers in India.

Why does Amazon's label PDF have twice as many pages as orders?

Because each order produces two pages: a shipping label page and a tax invoice page. The label page is a single image with no selectable text; the invoice page holds the text, including your SKU and quantity.

Can I print the SKU on the Amazon shipping label?

Yes. The SKU is not on the label itself — it is in the invoice page's item table. A cropper that reads that text can print it onto the label, which removes the need to open an invoice for every parcel.

Should I remove the invoice before printing labels?

For thermal printing, yes — you only want labels on the roll. Keep the invoices as a separate A4 file if you include them in the parcel or need them for accounts.