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How to print Meesho labels on a 4x6 thermal printer, with the invoice

· 6 min read · Guide

Meesho gives you one A4 page per order. A thermal printer takes 4 × 6 inch rolls. Getting from one to the other is two small jobs: crop the page down to the label and its invoice, then set the printer once so it prints at true size. Here is both, start to finish.

Why the Meesho PDF will not go straight onto a 4x6 roll

Open a label PDF from the Meesho Supplier Panel and only the top half of each A4 page is used: the shipping label, the product details, and the tax invoice ending in a Total row. Below that is a disclaimer and then blank paper.

Send that page to a thermal printer as it is, and one of two things happens. Either the printer shrinks the whole A4 page to fit the roll, so the label prints at about a third of its size and the barcode is too fine to scan. Or it prints at full size and the bottom of the label runs off the end of the roll. Neither is fixed by changing printer settings. The page has to be cropped first.

Step 1: crop the Meesho label with its invoice

The invoice has to travel with the parcel, so the crop keeps it and drops only what is below it. That is what the Meesho label crop with invoice tool on LabelCropPro does, free and in the browser.

  1. Download the label PDF from the Meesho Supplier Panel as you normally would. Several files at once is fine.
  2. Open labelcroppro.in/meesho-label-cropper and drop the PDFs onto the page.
  3. Each page is cut just under the invoice Total row. The label, product details and invoice stay; the disclaimer and blank paper go.
  4. Under Page size, choose 4 × 6.
  5. Click Merge & download for one PDF of every label, or Print labels to print straight away.
Nothing is uploaded. The PDF is read in your browser, so customer names, addresses and phone numbers never leave your computer.

Step 2: decide how big the invoice prints

A cropped Meesho label is about 8 inches wide, so on a 4 inch roll it prints at roughly half size. That is still easy to scan, but the invoice underneath takes up a lot of the roll.

Open More in the settings panel and move the Invoice size slider down, to 70% for example. The shipping label stays exactly the same size; only the invoice below it gets smaller. Every label now uses less roll, and the invoice is still there for the customer.

The large SKU, size and quantity caption under each label is the thing a packer reads off the stack. On 4 × 6 it takes up the space left at the foot of the page, so it stays big enough to read at arm’s length.

Step 3: set up the thermal printer once

These settings are made once, in the printer driver and the print dialog. They are the same idea on every thermal printer sellers use, from TVS and TSC to Zebra and Xprinter.

Where each of these sits in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Acrobat is covered in printing shipping labels at the right size.

Step 4: print one label and measure it

Before the day’s batch, print a single label. A 4 × 6 label is 101.6 × 152.4 mm. If yours measures noticeably smaller, scaling is still switched on somewhere.

Then scan its barcode with a phone or the scanner your courier uses. If it reads first time, send the rest. If it does not, when a label barcode will not scan goes through the causes in order.

Printing straight from the browser

If it still prints wrong

Try it on today’s labels

Cropping, merging and printing are free, with no label limit. Open the free Meesho label cropper, drop in today’s Supplier Panel PDF, choose 4 × 6, and print. For Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal and AJIO labels, every tool is on the tools page.

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