If you fulfil Amazon.in orders with Easy Ship, the label PDF you download is one of the most important documents in your daily operation — and one of the least understood. This guide covers what's actually in that file, how to print it cleanly on a thermal printer, and the two packing mistakes that cause most wrong shipments.
What's inside an Easy Ship label PDF
Amazon gives you one A4 page per order, split into two halves:
- The shipping label (top) — courier details, the AWB/tracking barcode, the delivery address, and the ship-by date.
- The tax invoice (bottom) — the customer invoice with item lines, prices, and GST breakdown.
That combined format is designed for A4 laser printers: print the page, cut it in half, stick the label, put the invoice in the parcel. But most sellers doing real daily volume print on a 4×6 inch thermal printer — and feeding an A4 page to a thermal printer either shrinks everything to an unreadable size or cuts the page in the wrong place.
Why you crop the label
A thermal label printer wants a page that is only the label — nothing above it, nothing below it. Cropping the PDF means cutting each page down to just the label area and resizing it to 4×6, so every page comes out of the printer as one clean, scannable label.
Three things matter when cropping:
- The barcode must stay intact. A stretched or clipped barcode fails the courier's scan, and a failed scan at pickup can mean the order doesn't ship that day.
- The bottom rows matter. The "Not for resale" line and the lower tracking barcode are part of the label — a crop that measures from the wrong edge of the page slices them off.
- Not every Amazon PDF is the same size. Bulk label downloads and single-order downloads can come in different page sizes. A cropper that assumes one fixed layout will be perfect on one and wrong on the other — check a sample from each download path you use.
The SKU problem
Amazon's own label does not print your SKU anywhere on it. When you're packing thirty orders across fifteen products, that means opening the invoice half of every page just to see what goes in the box — or worse, guessing from the product title.
The fix is to print the SKU (and quantity) directly onto the label area while cropping, so the packer reads everything they need from the label itself: which product, how many units, which order.
The multi-item order trap
The most expensive packing mistake in Easy Ship is treating every label as one item. An order can contain two or more different products on a single invoice with a single label — and if the packer only reads the first item line, the customer receives half their order, you get a return, a refund, and a seller-metrics hit.
Two habits prevent it:
- Make multi-item orders visually loud at packing time — a badge, a highlight, anything that forces a second look before the parcel is sealed.
- Use a pick list: one line per SKU with the total quantity to pick across the whole batch, so stock is pulled correctly before packing even starts.
Scheduling the pickup
A printed label isn't a shipped order. Easy Ship orders also need a pickup slot scheduled with Amazon's logistics — an order with a label but no scheduled pickup will quietly sit there until it misses its ship-by date, and late shipments feed straight into your account health metrics. Batch your day so that label printing and pickup scheduling happen together, and check for any order whose ship-by date is today before anything else.
Do all of this in one step
We built both a free tool and a full workflow for exactly this:
- Free Label Crop tool — crops Amazon, Flipkart & Meesho label PDFs in your browser (nothing is uploaded), prints the SKU and quantity on each label, flags multi-item orders, and generates a pick list. Free, no account needed.
- Sellerio's Print Labels — inside the app, the same engine goes further: pick a brand and date range, and Sellerio schedules missing pickups, fetches every label from Amazon, crops, overlays SKUs, and merges the batch into one print-ready PDF.