How to Crop Meesho Labels and Print Them on 4x6 Rolls

If you sell on Meesho, you already know the problem. You download your ready-to-ship labels, open the PDF, and every order is an A4 page with the shipping label sitting on top and the tax invoice underneath. Print it as it comes and you burn a full sheet per order, waste half the paper, and end up trimming labels with scissors at the packing table. Send it to a thermal printer and it either refuses the page size or shrinks everything until the barcode stops scanning.

This guide covers the whole workflow: getting the labels out of the supplier panel, cropping the invoice away, printing at the right size on both thermal and A4, and the small settings that decide whether a barcode scans at the hub or comes back as an undelivered parcel.

Step 1: download the label PDF

In the Meesho supplier panel, open your pending or ready-to-ship orders and download the labels as you normally would. One file can hold a handful of orders or several hundred — the size does not matter for what comes next.

Two things are worth knowing before you go further. First, download the original PDF rather than taking a screenshot or re-saving it from a phone gallery; screenshots lose the text layer that makes SKU sorting possible. Second, keep the file on the machine that will do the printing. There is no need to email it to yourself or upload it anywhere.

Step 2: crop the invoice off every page

Open the Meesho Label Cropper and drop the PDF in. Nothing is uploaded — the file is read by your own browser, which matters when the pages contain your buyers' names, phone numbers and addresses.

The tool looks at every page and finds where the shipping label ends and the tax invoice begins. It does this by reading the page rather than assuming a fixed position: the TAX INVOICE heading, any full-width ruled line, and the widest band of white space are all evidence. That is why a file containing several courier templates still cuts correctly from the first page to the last.

Before you commit, look at the preview. A dashed orange line shows exactly where each page will be cut, and you can page through to check a few. This is the step most people skip, and it is the one that prevents a batch of forty mis-cropped labels.

Press Crop labels and the download starts.

Step 3: choose the output that matches how you pack

The crop is not one-size-fits-all, and picking the right output saves more time than the crop itself.

Labels only is the everyday choice: one clean label per order, invoice removed.

Labels by product reads the SKU printed on each label and gives you one PDF per product. If you are shipping forty orders across five products, this is the difference between walking to the same shelf forty times and packing five neat batches. On a real nine-order file, this produces five files — four labels for one jewellery combo, two for another, and one each for three more.

Invoices only gives you the tax invoice half on its own, for the copy that goes inside the parcel and for your records.

Label + invoice on one page keeps both together on a single page with the blank space and side margins trimmed away. Meesho requires the invoice to travel with the order, so if you print both on one sheet and fold it into the parcel, this is the option that stops you wasting the bottom third of every page.

Step 4: printing on a 4x6 thermal printer

Most sellers who ship more than twenty orders a day move to a thermal printer and 100 × 150 mm (4 × 6 inch) rolls. The settings below matter more than the printer brand — TVS, Zebra, TSC and Xprinter all behave the same way.

In the tool, open More options and turn on Fit to label stock. In shipping mode the size already defaults to 100 × 150 mm. Each label is trimmed of white margin and centred with a small quiet zone so the barcode never runs to the edge of the sticker.

Then, in your printer driver:

• Set the paper or media size to exactly 100 × 150 mm. If your driver only offers inches, that is 4 × 6.
• Set margins to none or zero.
• Set scaling to 100% or Actual size. Never "Fit to page", "Shrink to fit" or "Fit to printable area".
• If your printer has a darkness or density setting, keep it in the middle. Too light gives grey bars that scanners struggle with; too dark bleeds the bars together.

Most thermal label printers sold in India are 203 dpi, which is more than enough for the barcodes Meesho generates, provided nothing rescales them on the way to the printer.

Printing on A4 sticker sheets instead

If you are still on a laser printer and A4 sticker paper, skip Fit to label stock and print the cropped file directly at 100% scale. You will get one label per sheet, which is wasteful on paper but perfectly scannable. Sellers who want to fill the sheet usually crop first and then place several labels per page in their PDF viewer's multi-page-per-sheet print option — just make sure the viewer is not scaling anything down, because that is where barcodes get damaged.

Avoid inkjet printers if you can. Inkjet ink spreads slightly into the paper fibres, which thickens the bars and is one of the more common reasons a label scans fine on screen and fails at the courier hub.

Sorting by SKU: the biggest time saving

Packing order by order means switching products constantly. Sorting by SKU flips the workflow: print one product's file, pack every one of those orders, move on.

Meesho prints the SKU inside a small table on the label, under a header row that reads SKU, Size, Qty, Color, Order No. The tool reads the value in the SKU column rather than the first word it finds, so you get real product codes like 7-MOR HAR AND CHOKAR COMBO rather than the column header next to it. Each output file is named after the product, so you can hand them to whoever is packing without explaining anything.

You can combine this with the label-plus-invoice output, which gives you one trimmed page per order, grouped by product, in a single step.

Common problems and fixes

The cut line is in the wrong place on one file. Open More options, choose Custom, and drag a box on the preview. That exact area is cropped from every page in the file, which covers any template the automatic detection has not seen before.

The sort-by-product button is greyed out. That PDF has no selectable text — usually a scan or a screenshot saved as a PDF. Cropping still works; sorting needs readable text.

The barcode does not scan after printing. Almost always a scaling problem. Reprint at 100% with margins set to none, and check that your PDF viewer is not applying its own "fit" setting on top of the driver's.

Fewer pages came out than orders I had. Blank pages are skipped by default so you never print an empty label. If the count still looks wrong, page through the preview to see whether a page was genuinely empty.

The label still has white space at the sides. Make sure "Trim white margins" is ticked. If a courier template draws a faint border around the label, the trim stops at that border, because a border is real content rather than white space.

A quick pre-dispatch check

Before a long print run, print one label and scan it with any barcode app on your phone. If your phone reads the tracking number, the courier's scanner will too. Thirty seconds of checking is cheaper than a batch of parcels that get stuck at the hub.

Once the workflow is set up, the whole thing takes about ten seconds per batch: download, drop in, press one button, print. Everything happens on your own device, so no customer address ever leaves your computer.