# Label Trim: Crop A4 and Letter shipping labels to 4x6 or A6 for your thermal printer, in batches.

> Many marketplaces and carriers still hand out labels as a full A4 or Letter page. Label Trim finds the label on the page, crops it to 4x6 inch, 100x150 mm or A6 without shrinking the barcode, and gives you one print-ready file for the whole day's orders.

- Page: https://rotomal.com/label-crop/
- Category: Shipping labels and documents
- Language: en
- Billing: subscription
- From: $4 per month
- Request (free, no card): https://rotomal.com/label-crop/request/

- Batch in, one file out: drop 50 A4 or Letter PDFs and get one PDF with one label per page, in order
- Crops the PDF page itself instead of taking a screenshot, so text and barcodes stay sharp and at their original size
- Splits sheets that hold two or four labels, keeps or drops the receipt half, and adds the packing slip after each label if you want it

## Your printer takes 4x6, your marketplace gives you A4

A thermal label printer is the cheapest way to ship: no ink, no scissors, one sticker per parcel. But many marketplaces and carriers, especially in Europe, generate the label as a full A4 page, or as a quarter of one, with the label in one corner and a receipt or instructions on the rest. Printed as is on a 4x6 printer, it comes out tiny or cut off.

Sellers have been asking the platforms for 4x6 output for years. Until they add it, the workarounds are manual: zoom into the PDF and print the visible area, crop in a paid PDF editor, or write a script. Each one costs a minute per parcel and risks a scaled barcode the carrier cannot scan.

Label Trim does the cropping for you: it recognises where the label sits on the page, cuts it out at its true size and rotates it for your roll, for a whole batch at once.

- On eBay Germany's community forum, sellers report that eBay.de only offers DHL labels as a DIN A4 page, while the US site offers 4x6; eBay's community team said it would pass the request to the shipping team again, gave no date, and one seller says eBay promised something similar at the end of 2024 (checked 7 November 2026). (source: https://community.ebay.de/t5/Vorschl%C3%A4ge-und-R%C3%BCckmeldungen-zur/Druckformat-Versandetikett-4-x-6-%C3%BCber-Ebay/m-p/4979879)
- In May 2023 a seller on Allegro's community forum asked for 100x150 mm ZPL or PDF labels on Allegro Lokalnie because A4 wastes three quarters of each sheet; a moderator replied that this was not currently possible. (source: https://spolecznosc.allegro.pl/t5/sprzedaj%C4%85cy-o-allegro-lokalnie/formaty-generowanych-etykiet-zpl-lub-chocia%C5%BC-pdf-100x150/td-p/567249)
- In February 2023 a German seller described downloading Hermes labels as an A4 PDF, label on top and receipt below; by March he had written his own crop-and-print script to print them at 101.6 x 152.4 mm on a Zebra printer. (source: https://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/551343)
- LabelChop, a label-cropping tool, costs US$9 a month or US$79 a year for its desktop app, US$149 for a lifetime licence, or US$5 for 25 browser pages (checked 7 November 2026). (source: https://labelchop.com/pricing)

## How it works

1. **Request service.** Tell us which marketplaces and carriers you ship with and which printer and label size you use. We set up your account within 2 business days.
2. **We tune your carriers.** Send one sample label from each carrier. We confirm the crop area, rotation and whether to keep the receipt part, and save it as a preset for your account.
3. **Drop in the day's labels.** Upload in the browser, forward the label emails to your private address, or save PDFs to a watched folder on your computer.
4. **Print one file.** Download one PDF with one label per 4x6 or A6 page, packing slips interleaved if you chose that, and print at 100% scale.

## Features

- **Automatic label detection.** Finds the label on the page from its border and barcodes, even when it sits in a corner of an A4 sheet. You can save a fixed crop per carrier when a layout never changes.
- **True-size vector crop.** Changes the visible area of the PDF page instead of rasterising it, so barcodes keep their original bar widths. Labels larger than your roll are flagged, never silently shrunk.
- **Sheets with several labels.** Splits A4 pages that hold two or four labels into separate pages, and separates the label from the receipt or customs part when a carrier prints both.
- **Packing slip merge.** Adds your packing slip or invoice after each label on the same roll, matched by order number, or puts label and slip on one A4 page for office printers.
- **The reverse: 4x6 to A4.** No thermal printer at a second site? Lay 4x6 or A6 labels two per Letter page or four per A4 label sheet at full size.
- **Scan check.** After cropping, Label Trim reads the barcodes again and marks any label where one could not be decoded, before it reaches your printer.
- **Email-in and watch folder.** Forward label emails to a private address or save PDFs into a folder; cropped files come back automatically, ready to print.

## Who it's for

- **Marketplace sellers in Europe.** You sell on eBay, Kleinanzeigen, Vinted, Allegro or Etsy and ship with DHL, Hermes, DPD, GLS, InPost or Colissimo, and some of them only give you A4. Every label prints on the roll.
- **Small shops with mixed carriers.** One carrier gives 4x6, another A4, a third two labels per page. You print one file in one size.
- **Shops sending packing slips with every parcel.** Label and slip print together, in order, so nobody matches paper by hand.
- **Teams with a thermal printer at only one site.** The second site prints the same labels on A4 sheets at full size.

## Works with

PDF labels from DHL, Deutsche Post, Hermes, DPD, GLS and UPS, PDF labels from InPost, Colissimo, PostNL, Royal Mail and Evri, Marketplace label PDFs from eBay, Kleinanzeigen, Vinted, Allegro and Etsy, Thermal printers using 4x6 inch, 100x150 mm or A6 labels, Laser and inkjet printers with A4 or Letter label sheets, Email-in (any mailbox that can forward attachments), Windows and macOS watch folder, Packing slips and invoices as PDF

## Pricing

Billed monthly, cancel any time. A label is one cropped output page. All plans include carrier presets, true-size cropping, multi-label splitting and the scan check. Founding customer pricing stays fixed while you remain subscribed. We onboard new accounts within 2 business days.

| Plan | Price | Includes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seller | $4 per month | 300 labels a month; Browser upload, batches of up to 50 PDFs; Presets for up to 5 carriers; 4x6, 100x150 mm and A6 output; Scan check; 1 user |
| Shop | $9 per month | Up to 5,000 labels a month; Everything in Seller; Packing slip and invoice merge; Email-in address and watch folder; 4x6 to A4 sheet layouts; Up to 3 users |
| Warehouse | $24 per month | Up to 25,000 labels a month; Everything in Shop; Watch folders on up to 5 computers; Separate presets per site or client; Up to 10 users; Support reply within one business day |

## Compared with the alternatives

- **LabelChop.** Desktop and browser label cropper: US$9 a month or US$79 a year for the desktop app with a watch folder and A4-to-4x6 auto-crop, US$149 lifetime, or US$5 for 25 browser pages. Label Trim's plans include packing slip merge, multi-label splitting and a scan check, from $4 a month.
- **Free browser croppers.** Several free web tools crop a single Letter or A4 label to 4x6. They work well for an occasional label; for daily batches, mixed carriers and packing slips you end up repeating the same steps by hand.
- **Cropping by hand.** Zooming into the PDF, cropping in a paid PDF editor or writing a script with free PDF tools all work. They take a minute or more per label and are easy to get wrong when the print dialog scales the page.
- **Asking the platform for 4x6.** Some platforms, Shopify among them, already offer a thermal 4x6 format: always use it where it exists. Label Trim is for the carriers and marketplaces that still only give you A4.

## Security and data

- Our retention policy: label PDFs, and emails sent to your email-in address, are kept for 24 hours so you can download the result, then deleted.
- Names and addresses on labels are never read for any other purpose, shared or sold.
- All uploads and downloads use HTTPS; your email-in address is random and can be changed at any time.
- We do not ask for passwords to your marketplace or carrier accounts.
- Account data is deleted within 30 days of cancellation, or sooner on request.

## Your first week

We set up a preset for each carrier from one sample label, so your first real batch prints correctly.

- Day 1: you send the request and one sample label per carrier.
- Day 1–2: we build your carrier presets and set up your account.
- Day 2: you crop your first real batch and print it.
- Day 7: we check any label the scan check flagged and adjust the presets.

## FAQ

### Will the carrier still accept the cropped label?

Label Trim does not change the label content or the barcode size; it only removes the empty or receipt part of the page. Check your carrier's own rules for label size, and always keep the label intact and unscaled.

### What if the label is larger than 4x6?

We tell you instead of shrinking it. Some carrier labels are A6 (105 x 148 mm), which is slightly wider and shorter than 4x6 (101.6 x 152.4 mm); choose the roll that matches your labels, or we flag the ones that do not fit.

### Does it work with my printer?

Any thermal printer that prints PDFs on 4x6, 100x150 mm or A6 labels, through its normal driver. Print at 100% or Actual size with Fit to page turned off.

### How do I know the crop will be right?

Every plan starts with a test of one sample label per carrier during onboarding, so the preset is confirmed before your first real batch. Plans start at $4 a month.

### Do you need access to my marketplace account?

No. You upload, forward or save the label PDFs you already download. We never log in to eBay, Vinted, Allegro or any carrier for you.

### What about ZPL or EPL labels?

Label Trim works on PDF labels. If your labels arrive as code, Label Render converts ZPL and EPL Render converts EPL to PDF first.

## Guides

- [How to print an A4 shipping label on a 4x6 thermal printer](https://rotomal.com/label-crop/print-a4-label-on-thermal-printer/): Check the platform setting first, then crop the label area to 100x150 mm, print at 100% and scan-test. Sizes, settings and a free command-line method.

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