Convert an eBay return label to print on a thermal label printer

EffieTrinketsWig

Does anyone know how to do this?, the return label pdf is set up for an A4 printer and I would like to print it off using my thermal label printer, any advice would be appreciated.

soolin

EffieTrinketsWig said:

Does anyone know how to do this?, the return label pdf is set up for an A4 printer and I would like to print it off using my thermal label printer, any advice would be appreciated.

I just change my printer settings to my Zebra printer ( I also have a Canon printer) and choose 6x4 label size..

EffieTrinketsWig

soolin said:

EffieTrinketsWig said:

Does anyone know how to do this?, the return label pdf is set up for an A4 printer and I would like to print it off using my thermal label printer, any advice would be appreciated.

I just change my printer settings to my Zebra printer ( I also have a Canon printer) and choose 6x4 label size..

Unfortunately I tried that for my printer but the actual pdf has the labels horizontal on each page.

soolin

EffieTrinketsWig said:

soolin said:

EffieTrinketsWig said:

Does anyone know how to do this?, the return label pdf is set up for an A4 printer and I would like to print it off using my thermal label printer, any advice would be appreciated.

I just change my printer settings to my Zebra printer ( I also have a Canon printer) and choose 6x4 label size..

Unfortunately I tried that for my printer but the actual pdf has the labels horizontal on each page.

I'm not at all techie, but does changing it from landscape to portrait help? 

EffieTrinketsWig

soolin said:

EffieTrinketsWig said:

soolin said:

EffieTrinketsWig said:

Does anyone know how to do this?, the return label pdf is set up for an A4 printer and I would like to print it off using my thermal label printer, any advice would be appreciated.

I just change my printer settings to my Zebra printer ( I also have a Canon printer) and choose 6x4 label size..

Unfortunately I tried that for my printer but the actual pdf has the labels horizontal on each page.

I'm not at all techie, but does changing it from landscape to portrait help? 

It doesn't help, the pdf supplied by eBay has 2 pages, 1 has the label and 1 has the return slip, both of them are landscape orientated on each of the pages, and are designed to be printed on an A4 sheet each, thank for your help anyway.

GadgetGuru

soolin said:

I just change my printer settings to my Zebra printer ( I also have a Canon printer) and choose 6x4 label size..

I do exactly the same. 

On the create label page look to the lower right (under the address details etc) for the current label format and click CHANGE to set to the 4x6 format (mine is also on PDF). This is the only setting you need to change on eBay. 

If it is already set to the 4x6 format, then I suggest you look at your label printer driver, or create a new default preset with slightly modified margins. 

martindow

The latest version of Firefox allows you to edit pdf documents within the browser

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/features/pdf-editor/

The examples given do not include what you need, but it may be possible to crop, resize, etc..  Might be worth a try.

EffieTrinketsWig

Thanks everyone for your suggestions even if they weren't a soution to my particular problem.

In case anyone else experiences this problem I will detail my eventual, if not somewhat convoluted solution.

I did a search online and found a website that allowed me to extract JPG images from the uploaded PDF for free, there are a few websites I tried but despite claiming they were free they effectively hold your extracted images hostage until you paid a fee to download them, which they didn't disclose until you extracted them, no mention of it on the site prior to the files being extracted, so a bit of a scam and I was not going to give them payment details, but there are genuine websites out there as I eventually found after the third try.

I then cropped the image within the JPG and then changed the orientation of it from horizontal to vertical, I saved it in Paint then printed it.

Just a short moan, you would think given the number of people with label printers and that eBay are capable of generating postage labels for these that they would be able to offer a return label in the same format as well as A4.

Jerry_Cornelius

It doesn't help, the pdf supplied by eBay has 2 pages, 1 has the label and 1 has the return slip, both of them are landscape orientated on each of the pages, and are designed to be printed on an A4 sheet each, thank for your help anyway.

I assume you mean they dont take up the full page? So the A4 is portrait, but the labels are landscape as it were?

You could get a good size clear view of each label and use the snipping tool to copy and paste into something else like a Word program if you have one - the word doc could be set to 4x6, insert the image and rotate and fill to the doc size.

Someone on here (including me) might be able to have a go at it for you if you wanted ...