How to Crop an A4 size(8.5"x11") Page to 4"x6" Label?(RH-40&RH-40BT)

Created by Mike XU, Modified on Wed, 1 Nov, 2023 at 12:55 AM by Mike XU

✔️ In an ideal world, shipping companies would provide you with a 4 x 6 inches label file, with the correct orientation and appropriate quality. That would make sense because they want your label to be 4" x 6"!

 ✔️ In reality, however, shipping companies think if you don't have a commercial solution (more on that shortly), then you are a very low-volume shipper and are probably printing at home on a standard 8.5" x 11" printer - which is the most common home printer. So you may have to crop a full size 8.5" x 11" page to a 4" x 6" label before printing on your Thermal Label Printer. 

⚠️Note: Selling channels such as PayPal, Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, eBay can provide their labels in 4 x 6 size ready for thermal label printer directly. Please check this link on Platform Setup -how to printer labels onmost popular platforms.


✔️For windows users, our favorite method to crop a full size 8.5" x 11" page to a 4" x 6" label is using Adobe Reader's "Take a Snapshot" function. 

⚠️ Warning: Trying to take a screenshot directly using other software may seriously reduce the quality of the printing source, causing fuzzy printed labels. 


✔️ Using Adobe Reader to Take a Snapshot 

  • Download Adobe Reader if you do not have it yet from the Adobe website. It's a free PDF Reader software from Adobe.
  • Save your label as a PDF file.
  • Open the file in Adobe Reader.
  • Rotate the label if needed by going to View -> Rotate View.
  • Go to Edit -> Take a Snapshot.
  • Click and drag the box over your label.
  • Go to File -> Print
  • If the preview looks good, click "Print". 

✔️Following are the Screenshot for these Steps. 

✔️For Windows

 Open the PDF in Adobe software.

From the top panel,select "Edit">"Take a Snapshot", choose the area you want to printer.

✅Then click "Print ?️",set up the page size that matched to the load label size. Then print.

⚠️ Note: Please make sure the page size match to the load label size, otherwise, it is possible that it prints out over label or misaligned.


✔️For Mac

Similary,Mac also has analogous steps.

Find the "File" in the left corner of you desktop > Click "Open" > Click Desktop > Choose PDF file (Or you can open the file with Adobe software)

✅From the top panel,selct View > Rotate View > Clockwise so that the labels are side byside.(If the labels had vertically, please skip this step)

✅Next,from the top panel, select Edit > Take a Snapshot. Then click and dragover one of the labels that you need. So that you can print a specific range of label.

 Then click "Print ?️",set up the page size that matched to the load label size. Then print.

⚠️ Note: If you print the label bar code on a Mac View, it's blurry. Try to reduce the print blackness in the driver or print using Adobe software.

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