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Go to one of your recent orders under sold. Use the popup menu on the right of the item to choose to print another label. You ar enot going to actually print another label, just change your settings.
At the top of page to print a label you see a warning that you've already printed a label. Click the "Printer and label receipt preferences" link to the lower right.
That brings up a popup window:
Uncheck the radiobutton under #2 & Save.
You will still will be left with a dashed "cut on dotted line" to the right side of the label and some small text below it. If you want to get rid of that (or even the whole receipt) on labels then you will need to find a suitable application to perform custom image batch cropping. In Adobe Acrobat Pro; for instance, you can create a custom action to automatically crop an entire folder of labels with just a menu selection once you set it up.
You could also import your eBay orders to pirateship where you can save your labels as apdf to your computer without any additional junk text or graphics.
This is very helpful, anthology-of-treasures, however, I cannot return to the classic label printing page any more! Until about two days ago, every time I went to print a label, I would choose "return to classic label printing". Now, it says "where is classic label printing?" at the top right of the label printing page.
I tried looking at old orders to print another label, and the choices have all changed.
Finally, I called Customer Service, and they tell me there is no way to revert to the classic label printing. Soon everyone will be switched over, so if there's anything you want to change that you used that page to do, you'd better do it now!
Customer Service advised me to save my label as a pdf and then crop out the instructions (adding a few steps to each label I print)! There is no way to change the label preferences now.
Thanks for your suggestions.
You will need to search Google or another search engine for a application that allows you to process images in batches. You should search for one that allows you to create a custom crop or trim. Many batch watermarking applications offer batch cropping. Try looking for shareware or freeware apps which you can try first and then make a donation if they work.
I am on a Macintosh. I don't have a current version of Windows or Linux installed within VirtualBox to recommend anything. You'll have to download an app and experiment with what works on your computer. It will take a few minutes to get it working; however, the long term payoff is that you will be saving time every time when you need to print labels.
Another example Macintosh application I have on hand is PhotoMill.
Some pdfs can't be opened by this app so save your label as a png image or another non-lossy image file type.
Drag a sample image into PhotoMill.
You now need to create a custom preset which you can reuse later.
Create a name for that preset by selecting "Save as New Preset" from the top "Preset" popup menu.
Type in your name of your preset, in this case I've used Crop Labels.
You don't want the app to overwrite your original images. You will want the app to create a duplicate of your label, crop that, and save it with a slightly different name. Choose File Name > Edit...
In this case I've clicked on the <Original Name> tag from the bottom tag menu and added the text "_w" after that tag. In case a copy of your label will be saved using the original file, with "_w" as a suffix.
Choose the image format that you want your cropped duplicate save as. I've chosen PDF.
Add a Action > Geometry > Trim
Add the margins to the Trim Action.
Now we need to save the preset.
Select Preset Popup Menu Button > Save Current Preset
Click the Convert Button. You will be asked to select a folder where you want the cropped versions of labels saved. Select the same folder as your uncropped labels are stored in.
Now you are set to autocross a batch of labels. I've dragged six into the window.
Make sure the Preset "Crop Labels" is selected. It should still be selected by default if you've not previously used any other presets. Click the Start button. The previously used folder you selected to save your cropped labels in should be chosen by default so just press "Choose".
You now have six cropped shipping labels in a 2-3 seconds depending on how fast you computer is. If you folder contains 50 labels then it will just take a few seconds longer. In this case the computer folder is arranged by type so that the PDF cropped labels can be selected as a group and printed two per page using a print dialog window.
If you notice in the future that the labels are cropped improperly due to a eBay change then you still have your originals to adjust the crop settings once again. If you download labels from a different source then create another custom preset for those labels to use. A few minutes work thus saves hundreds of hours of work over the years.
The process is very similar with any other application.
If you do not want to search for a external batch cropping application to use or use the authorized eBay label provider pirateship then the only alternative I see is to program your own batch cropping application with a tool like Visual Basic or Xojo.
Here is very crude preliminary screenshot of a unfinished app I created in Xojo within a 20-25 minutes. The user creates a cropping profile by moving four crop lines using the scrollbars, with minor pixel by pixel adjustments been done via the arrow keys. The user sets a origin input folder and destination output folder which can be same or different folder on a computer. The various numbers and empty editfields displayed are for programing use only. It still needs a menu for different presets and some tidying up.
The key lesson here is not to reply on eBay, but yourself.
