Print a 4x6 shipping label on a thermal printer
4x6 is the common thermal roll size. The file is a PDF whose page is exactly the label, so the printer has a page to print, not a sheet to scale.
Steps
- Make the label. Open the label maker on the home page and fill in the address the parcel goes to, then your own return address. A reference line and a Code 128 or QR barcode are optional, and both are built from a value you type.
- Pick 4x6 thermal in the size picker. That layout is one cell on a page of its own, so nothing else is drawn around the label.
- Download the PDF. The form previews the same label before you download it, and the download is the file you print. The single label form needs no account, and PDF is on every plan.
- Set the paper size to 4x6 and print. That is the only printer setting the file depends on. The PDF page already measures 4 by 6 inches, which is 288 by 432 points, so the page and the label stock are the same size.
- Check one label before the run. The return address prints small in the top left, the recipient block prints large and centered from 40 percent of the label down, and the reference and barcode sit along the bottom. A long address line shrinks to fit the label rather than running past the edge.
- For more than one label, use the CSV tab. A batch on the 4x6 thermal layout renders one label per page, so a batch of twenty orders is a twenty page PDF, each page one label.
What the file is not
The file is label artwork. It carries no postage, connects to no carrier account, and quotes no rate. It also does not check that an address exists: the form checks required fields, a two letter country code, and a state and ZIP for a US address, and that is all.
Makes the label. Does not buy postage.