Some shipping platforms only provide you with a full page (8.5" x 11") document.

Frequently, they use half of the page for the shipping label and the other half for receipt or packing slip.

 

While there are many ways to split this page into a 4" x 6" label size, here is our favorite method:

1."Take a Snapshot" 

2."Crop pages" -> Remove White Margins: 

Please see this article for Cropping multiple pages 

 

Download Adobe Reader for "Take a Snapshot" 

if you do not have it already from Adobe website .

 

1."Take a Snapshot" 

①Save your label as a PDF file

For Mac:

②Open the file in Adobe Reader

③Go to "Edit" -> "Take a Snapshot" ④Drag the box over your label, then right click on it and select "Print"

⑤Select Printer -> Click "Page Setup..."


-> Select Printer from "Format For: "  -> Select label size from "Paper Size: "


⑥If the size you need not is not listed, then click "Manage Custom Sizes" -> input width, height and rename the size, then click "OK"⑦Click "Printer..." -> "Show Details" -> Select "Printer Features" in "Preview"

⑧You can set up printer properties, such as "Media Tracking", "Darkness" and "Print speed". 

(Larger number means higher Darkness)⑨Preview, check the print size and Orientation. If preview looks good, click "Print"

For Win:

②Open the file in Adobe Reader

③Go to "Edit" -> "Take a Snapshot"④Drag the box over your label, then right click and select "Print"⑤Select Printer -> Click "Properties" -> Go to "Page Setup"-> Select label size from "Name"

If the size you need not is not listed, it needs to create a new size.

Right click on "This PC", choose "Properties", then click on "Control panel"-> "Devices and Printers"

Right click on "4BARCODE 4B-2054F" -> choose "Printer Preferences" 

-> Go to "Page Setup" -> click "New" to create a label size, then click "OK"⑥Go back to Adobe. Click "Properties" -> Select the label size from "Name"⑦Go to "Option" -> Untick "Use Current Printer Settings". You can change the printing speed and the Darkness of your printing (Larger number means higher Darkness) ⑧Check the created size and click "OK"⑨Preview, check the print size and Orientation. If preview looks good, click "Print"

Note: If you are shipping more than a few labels, you would benefit from using a commercial solution that create 4 x 6 labels in one-click. See this article: How do I generate labels?(1-4.Printing Label - Printing Label - How do I generate shipping labels)

 

Official guide from Adobe:Print portion of a PDF page using Acrobat or Reader 

 

 

How can I crop multiple pages in the same document at once? 

  • 1) If you are wanting this for Amazon FBA labels, the Itari team has put together a free service that can crop box labels into individual labels that can then print directly to Itari, 

please visit: https://Itari.com/pages/label-transformer 

  • 2) On Adobe Acrobat you are able to crop several / all pages together. 

Please see: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/crop-pdf-pages.html

3) Briss is a free open-source application available for cropping PDF pages at once. It may take a little while getting used to it but once you are comfortable with it, it is pretty fast: https://sourceforge.net/projects/briss/

 

 

4) For Mac: 

There is a third-party company that offers a software for cropping labels

Please download form: https://www.peninsula-group.com

There is a operation tutorial video: