Can I print a Flipkart label directly on 4×6 without cropping?

Not cleanly. The raw file is A4, so a 4×6 printer shrinks or clips it and the Ekart barcode ends up too small or cut off to scan. Crop the label to 4×6 first, then print at 100% scale.

What size is a Flipkart shipping label?

Once cropped out of the A4 sheet, the Flipkart shipping label fits a standard 4×6 in (100×150 mm) thermal label. A 3×5 also works if your rolls are that size.

Why does my Flipkart label barcode fail to scan at pickup?

Almost always the Ekart barcode is clipped or printed too light. Crop the label to a full 4×6 so the barcode is complete, and raise the printer darkness so the bars are solid black. Test-scan one label before the batch.

Do I have to print the tax invoice?

Keep the tax invoice with the shipment for inter-state (GST) orders. You can still hide the price on the printed label so the customer does not see your cost, and keep the full invoice inside the parcel.

Can I print Flipkart labels in bulk on a thermal printer?

Yes. Crop the whole ready-to-dispatch PDF to 4×6 in one pass, sort it by courier and pocket code, and print the merged file as one job so the printer feeds one label per order.

Which thermal printer works for Flipkart labels?

Any 4×6 direct-thermal printer. Sellers commonly use the TSC TE244, Xprinter XP-470B, or Zebra ZD230. A 203 DPI model prints a scannable Ekart barcode; you do not need 300 DPI.

How to Print a Flipkart Shipping Label on a Thermal Printer (4×6)

Why the Flipkart label won't print right as-is

Flipkart hands you the shipping label as an A4 PDF, built for a laser or inkjet printer. On that page the actual shipping label sits in one corner, next to a tax invoice, surrounded by wide white margins.

A 4×6 thermal printer expects a page that is exactly 4×6 inches. Send it the raw A4 and it either shrinks the whole sheet to fit, so the label becomes a tiny blurry rectangle, or prints only the top-left slice and cuts the label in half. Either way the Ekart barcode, the one the courier scans at pickup, comes out too small, off-position, or clipped.

That is the part that actually costs you. A barcode the handheld scanner cannot read shows up as a pickup failure and drags down your Ready-to-Dispatch record. Cropping the label to a clean 4×6 first is what keeps that barcode sharp and in the right place.

What you need

A direct-thermal 4×6 printer. Common ones with Indian sellers are the TSC TE244 or TE344, the Xprinter XP-470B or XP-460B, and the Zebra ZD230. A 203 DPI model is enough for the Ekart barcode.
4×6 (100×150 mm) direct-thermal labels, on a roll or fanfold.
Your Flipkart label PDF, downloaded from Seller Hub.
A way to crop the A4 down to 4×6: a PDF editor for the occasional order, or a crop tool for a whole batch.

How to print a Flipkart label on a thermal printer

Download the label from Flipkart Seller Hub

In Flipkart Seller Hub, open Orders, select the ones you are dispatching, and download the shipping label PDF. You can pull a single order or a full ready-to-dispatch batch into one file. Keep the PDF as it is; you crop it next.

Crop the A4 label to 4×6

This is the step that fixes the scan problem. By hand, you open the PDF in an editor, draw a crop box tightly around the shipping label with the Ekart barcode included and the invoice and margins left out, export it, then repeat for every order. Fine for a couple of labels, slow for a full day's orders.

A crop tool does it automatically across the whole batch. The EditLabel Flipkart label tool runs in your browser and handles the Flipkart-specific parts:

It crops around the full shipping label so the Ekart barcode stays complete and correctly placed, not clipped at the edge.
It can hide the price and the invoice block, so the customer never sees what you paid.
It can stamp your own SKU and a master code (with quantity) on each label, so pickers grab the right product fast.
It can sort the batch by courier and Flipkart pocket code (B1-B6 / zone), so each partner gets a pre-sorted stack.
The file stays in your browser, so customer names, addresses, and phone numbers are never uploaded.

Set your thermal printer to 4×6

Most half-printed or unscannable labels come from the print settings, not the file. Set these before you print:

Paper size: 4×6 in, or 100×150 mm. On Windows, set this as the printer's default stock size in Printing Preferences.
Scale: 100%, or "actual size". Turn off "fit to page"; once the label is cropped to 4×6 it already fills the sheet.
Orientation: portrait.
Print darkness: medium to high (around 8 to 12 on most drivers). A too-light setting is the usual reason an Ekart barcode looks fine but will not scan.

Print one, and check the Ekart barcode scans

Print a single label first and scan the Ekart barcode with your handheld scanner or a phone scanner app. If it reads cleanly, run the rest of the batch. If it does not, work through the usual causes:

A blurry or grey barcode means the print is too light. Raise the darkness, or slow the print speed by one notch.
A cut-off label means the scale slipped to "fit to page", or the stock size is not 4×6. Check both.
Long blank gaps between labels mean the printer needs a gap or black-mark calibration. Run the driver's calibrate routine once for your roll.

Keep the invoice, hide the price

A Flipkart label PDF usually carries the tax invoice alongside the shipping label. For inter-state orders it is safer to keep the invoice with the shipment for GST purposes, so crop to a layout that keeps it rather than dropping it. If you only want the courier to see the shipping label, hide the price and the invoice block on the printed label, and keep the full invoice inside the parcel.